[syslinux] Possible memdisk issue

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/08/2014 04:42 PM, Alexander Perlis wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, that is odd.  You might be looking at the transition point from
FAT12 to FAT16 maybe...

	-hpa