[syslinux] memdisk question

[Peter.Leenders at computacenter.com]

Hello Anthony,

best practise is to use 1,4 MB bootable floppydisk, read it with WinImage,
change format to 2,8MB, add the additional files with the inject option of
winimage and save it (doesn't matter if compressed or not memdisk can
handle this).

Standard parameter for the bootimage should be something like:

LABEL bootdisk
   MENU LABEL 2.8 MB Bootdisk
   kernel path_from_tftp_root_to_memdisk/memdisk
   append initrd=path_from_tftp_root_to_bootimage/bootimage.imz


Peter Leenders



                                                                           
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Anthony Hare wrote:
>
> I am using winimage, building a new image as a 2.88mb floppy.. Adding
> the files and changing the boot sector to win 95/98 (I used this link
> http://www.911cd.net/forums//lofiversion/index.php?t10853.html to get my
> original unicast ghost image to work).
>

Ah.  Memdisk doesn't like an image that is shorter than the medium it's
supposed to represent.  You want to pad it out with zeroes (or anything
else for that matter) to 2,949,120 bytes.

> Not really sure if I am going about it in the right way so any tips are
> greatly appreciated..
>
> Is there an easier way to build an image that will work with memdisk?

I'm not all that familiar with Windows-based tools, being a Linux person
myself.  I know a lot of people on the mailing list use Winimage,
perhaps someone else can help out?

             -hpa

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