[syslinux] help

[Matthew Holevinski]

you sure make things difficult, i'm not really sure what your trying
to achieve here, maybe you could tell me what doesn't work?


Matt

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Prof S W Damle <swdamle at bsnl.in> wrote:
> On Wed 5/5/2010 3:28 AM
> Miller, Shao wrote,
> ----------------------------------------------
> Good day again Matthew,
>
> As per (c=80) * (h=2) * (s=48) * (sect_size=512) = 3,932,160 bytes =
> 7,680 sectors:
>
> For Windows, you might enjoy:
> - "DD for Windows" by John Newbigin and chrysocome[1]
> - "ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver" and "Zero and Random Device Driver" by
> Olof Lagerkvist[2]
> - "TinyHexer" by Markus Stephany[3]
> - syslinux/win32/syslinux.exe and syslinux/com32/modules/chain.c32 (this
> one for chaining to DOS, should you wish to)
>
> C:\>dd if=\\.\zero of=matthew.vfd count=7680 --progress
> ...
> C:\>imdisk -a -t file -f matthew.vfd -x 48 -y 2 -m a: -o fd
> ...
> C:\>format /fs:fat a:
> ...
> C:\>syslinux.exe a:
> ...
> C:\>copy chain.c32 a:
> ...
> C:\>imdisk -d -m a:
> ...
> C:\>tinyhexer matthew.vfd
>
> - Edit the "Media Type" byte at 0x15 (22nd) to be "Floppy": 0xF0
> - Edit the "Hidden Sectors" double-word at 0x1C through 0x1F (29th
> through 32nd) to be zero: 0x00000000
> - Edit the "Drive ID" byte at 0x24 (37th) to be "Floppy": 0x00
> - Save your changes to matthew.vfd
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> June 14, 2010
> Sir,
>
> If it's OK, please let me know the procedure to follow for CD & HD.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> With regards,
>
> Prof S W Damle
>
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