[syslinux] memdisk and netbootdisk

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 14 14:23:04 PDT 2008


Fabrício Ceolin wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm trying boot a floppy basead netbootdisk solution (
> http://www.netbootdisk.com/) using grub and memdisk. This is a Floppy 1.44
> Mb with TCP/IP and Ethernet Drivers for DOS.
> This image doesn't has a command.com. This file is unzipped on boot.
> 
> Using a floppy, the machine boots, but when I trying to use a image from
> floppy which memdisk, the boots hangs.
> 
> The image can found at
> http://www.megaware.ind.br/megalinux/download/megainteg.img
> 

I have no idea why you're using Grub, but that's your problem...

Either way, adding any of "safeint", "raw" or "bigraw" to the command 
line made it work for me.  Some versions of DOS needs this.  (I really 
should make safeint the default...)

	-hpa




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