[syslinux] MEMDISK location in memory

[Martin Osterloh]

What I am trying to do is booting my OS (incl. custom bootloader) via MEMDISK and have the harddisk image in memory (a diskless system so to say).

I found a way to identify the MEMDISK image in memory. I set the size of the harddisk image to my liking. While going through my memory map, I just look for an unusable chunk of that exact size. Chances are pretty low that there is a 2nd chunk of memory with exactly the same (odd) size. 

Probably not the perfect way but it works for me.

-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Hutzelman
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:31 PM
To: For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa
Cc: jhutz at cmu.edu
Subject: Re: [syslinux] MEMDISK location in memory

On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 15:10 +0000, Martin Osterloh wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. I would really like to use the memory map since 
> this is most convenient for me. I noticed that there is an additional 
> entry in the memory map. However, I am trying to find out what type 
> MEMDISK uses? Any information on this?

What are you really trying to do?



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