[syslinux] [PATCH] git tree: libfat, chain, mtools/syslinux, menu.txt

[Gene Cumm]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 21:47, Michal Soltys <soltys at ziu.info> wrote:
> On 10-08-21 01:57, Gene Cumm wrote:
>>
>> git://gnx.ath.cx/syslinux.git
>>
>> On branch for_hpa, I've got several groups of changes (listed bottom up)
>> -chain.c32: the beginning of a DRMK loader; I still need to test this
>> further and document/code what ones can possibly work
>> -NEW: mtools/fixfat: Attempts to change the sectors attribute of the
>> FAT to make it more "livable" (probably needs to move to utils, if
>> included)
>> -chain.c32: a little more progress on DRMK
>
> Could you possibly point me to the versions of drmk you're testing with (I
> think you mentioned about testing a few of them) ?

6 sets (versions reference my versioning;
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/DRMK#VERSIONS).
cw1384a0.exe/cl1384a0.bin (v4.0) contain the most current and probably
best version.  cdd_1295.iso (v2.0) contains a hard drive image that
has been the most problematic to test for partition starts other than
what it came with.  cw1337a0.exe/cl1337a0.bin (v3.1) seems pretty
reasonable so far.

I got these files from http://ftp.us.dell.com/diags/

> Like I mentioned earlier, the chain.c32 branch I'm working on might/should
> be able to load them in a completely generic way - meaning drmk= would only
> flip a bunch of different options, without any special part(s) dedicated to
> mangling dellbio.

All I do is add some extra space at the end to put the hidden_sectors
count such that dellbio.bin can read it later (from ds:[bp+28] hence
the crazy math).

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-- 
-Gene