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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/03/2013 01:27 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
> 
> Aha, thanks Bernd. 
> This ISO clearly uses floppy emulation. The boot image is a 1.44" floppy
> with FreeDOS.  The rest of the data on the CD are 400Mb of firmware
> images for a number of different cards and motherboards. 
> 
> Many thanks for your help everyone - I have worked around the problem by
> cutting out all the unnecessary firmware data and packing only what I
> need into one floppy image. 
> 

The other option is to use isolinux + memdisk to load the floppy image
into RAM, then you can access the rest with eltorito.sys.

Either way... if you are using a floppy or hard disk image there is no
reason to go the side route through memdisk-iso.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.