[syslinux] Bug-report: Memdisk regression for XMGR DOS memory manager

Geza Kovacs geza0kovacs at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 06:26:01 PDT 2010


On 04/14/2010 04:35 PM, Gert Hulselmans wrote:
> This is not the first instance that "safeint" fails.
> The FreeDOS image used by UBCD also fails with "safeint" on some PCs.
> The image works fine in qemu and on some other PCs.
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-March/011854.html
> 
> Adding "raw" allows me to boot the image correctly.
> I didn't test "int" and "bigraw" back then.
> Now I did try with "int" and "bigraw" (tested only "1 Boot UMBPCI (silent)"
> menu option), and it works too (MEMDISK 3.85).
> 
> If it is really needed, I can test the other menu entries too.
> 
> You can download the 2.88MB floppy image (more recent) from here:
> http://ubcd.stopspazzing.com/downloads/ubcd-dos/fdubcd.-1.36-2010-04-07.img.gz
> 
> Geza Kovacs, can you try this image? I am pretty sure that it will
> fail for you, when you boot it with "safeint" (default MEMDISK mode).
> 

Strangely enough, that image boots just fine with safeint mode for me
(it also boots correctly on int, raw, and bigraw as well).




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