[syslinux] Slightly OT: Anyone got a PXE bootable HDD low level format tool?
Wagner Ferenc
wferi at niif.hu
Fri Sep 14 23:40:33 PDT 2007
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
> Andrew Stuart wrote:
>> Tim Bates wrote:
>>
>>> I just went to get the official tools, but they only have a floppy
>>> creator (which won't help me in Linux, or without a floppy drive) and a
>>> CD ISO. And it seems 99% of 3rd party software is unhelpfully the same
>>> (or is a Windows program).
>
> Floppy creators are a pain in the arse. You sometimes can run the
> floppy creator in a VM, and then run the disk image under MEMDISK.
Exactly. I wonder why vendors prefer to hack up ad hoc "Insert disk -
press button" proggies instead of distributing the (compressed) image
files themselves or binaries which run under FreeDOS. Or even -- why
not? -- under the SYSLINUX com32 API. Which even has a reboot call! :)
> CD ISOs are better, at least with a CD-ROM you can run them, but they
> generally aren't netbootable.
At least the bootable CD drives really should have a common API for
memdisk to hook into, if the BIOS can access them. Isn't this the
case?
--
Cheers,
Feri.
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