[syslinux] Embedding com32 modules and ldlinux.sys into one file

Sergii Kolisnyk kolkmail at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 04:04:04 PST 2016


Google search
freedos rom
found two source-available implementations:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050104085311/http://rayer.wz.cz/romos/romose.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20040806022202/http://linux.tu-varna.acad.bg/~lig/romdsk/


On 15 January 2016 at 13:43, Sergii Kolisnyk <kolkmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> As for BIOS, there are single-sector base memory (real mode) memdisk
> implementations, which should be ROM-compatible. I do remember
> Lanworks one. It's possible to make a compile option for syslinux
> memdisk resident code to work with base memory.
>
> On 15 January 2016 at 00:50, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux
> <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>> On 01/13/16 00:13, Tal Lubko via Syslinux wrote:
>>>
>>> OK. I'll try that.
>>> Any thoughts regarding the requirement to store the bootloader inside the BIOS chip?
>>>
>>
>> That is fundamentally up to your BIOS.  The best is to expose the
>> bootloader in the BIOS as a (readonly) disk drive using standard BIOS or
>> EFI interfaces.
>>
>>         -hpa
>>
>>
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