[syslinux] memdisk and netbootdisk

Fabrício Ceolin ceolin at ulevel.com
Tue Oct 14 19:30:35 PDT 2008


Hi,

I'm using a grub because I need to boot Linux and DOS from USB Key.
Using DOS images is the best way for me, so memdisk fit perfecly!

And with safeint works!

Thanks a lot!

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:23 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> 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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