[syslinux] Booting an ISO with FreeDOS over PXE with memdisk

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Mar 1 09:11:39 PST 2013


On 03/01/2013 08:27 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
>>
>> You probably want to replace CDDRV.SYS (which almost certainly tries
>> to do direct I/O to the CD-ROM drive) with ELTORITO.SYS (which is
>> included in the Syslinux distribution.)
> 
> Thanks Peter - I did try that already, but it also reported "No bootable
> CDROM found".
> 

That is probably because the CD is in disk emulation mode.  The same
disk can't be in both disk emulation mode (needed to access the disk
image on the CD) and no-disk emulation mode (needed to access the rest
of the CD) proper.  This is very unfortunate.

	-hpa




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