[syslinux] dos universal packet driver

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Mar 18 19:06:30 PDT 2009


Ian McDonald wrote:
> 
> My (rather tired at the moment) memory suggests to me that if it's not a
> standard floppy size, things get confused, and treat it as a hard disk,
> thus needing an mbr, partition table etc.
> 

Or you need to explicitly tell memdisk what you're working with, by
setting "floppy c=... h=... s=..." on the command line.

Syslinux 3.74-pre6 is a lot smarter in this respect, so you may want to
try out that version.

	-hpa

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