[syslinux] Possible memdisk issue

Alexander Perlis aperlis at math.lsu.edu
Tue Jul 8 16:42:05 PDT 2014


On 07/08/2014 05:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/08/2014 03:05 PM, Alexander Perlis wrote:
>>
>> Question: what's special about the transition from 8203KiB to 8204KiB?
>> Both have CHS=8/64/32 and both involve a fractional end cylinder.
>
> Fractional cylinders with floppy disks is almost certainly a very bad thing.
>

Agreed, but that doesn't appear to be the issue here. Fractional 8203K 
FreeDOS does work, yet larger values, including non-fractional ones, do not.

Alex


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