[syslinux] Possible memdisk issue

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jul 16 11:40:30 PDT 2014


On 07/15/2014 03:47 PM, Alexander Perlis wrote:
> 
> 10) Finally, having learned all this, it's not so hard to just construct
> a superfloppy of your desired size from scratch entirely within Linux:
> use mkdosfs to create an empty image file and hold on to the output for
> FAT type and geometry info. Then use sys-freedos-linux.zip from
> paragraph 7 to put boot code into sector 0 of that image. Finally, loop
> mount the image and copy in an appropriate kernel.sys and command.com
> from FreeDOS. Now PXE boot the result with MEMDISK and smile.
> 

This really is the best option.  There is another way to create them, if
you don't trust sys-freedos-linux.zip: you can spin up a virtual machine
running FreeDOS on drive C: and your blank superfloppy on drive A:, and
just have it run "SYS A:" in its autoexec.bat and shut down the VM.

	-hpa




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