[syslinux] memdisk parameters in windows pe.

Shao Miller sha0.miller at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 17:11:19 PDT 2012


On 10/26/2012 20:08, Shao Miller wrote:
>   The "initrd=xxx,yyy" logic wants to make sure that each chunk is
> padded at the end to a 4-byte boundary, but since typical disk sectors
> are 512 bytes, that means no padding is required, so all the pieces
> should just fit together as an indistinguishable whole HDD image, as far
> as MEMDISK is concerned.  Compressed pieces won't work, however.
>

Slight correction: The _last_ chunk isn't padded at the end, but that 
still doesn't make any difference for files that are multiples of 512 
bytes, which is divisible by 4.  - Shao




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