[syslinux] help

Prof S W Damle swdamle at bsnl.in
Mon Jun 14 14:32:54 PDT 2010



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From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
Behalf Of Matthew Holevinski
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:37 AM
To: For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] help

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
>
> _______________________________________________
> June 15, 2010
Some confusion,

> 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?

Every thing works perfect for Floppy.

I was trying to contact " Miller, Shao" to kindly explain me the
procedure to follow for CD & HD(similar to FD).

SWD




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