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

Sergii Kolisnyk kolkmail at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 04:28:36 PST 2016


Updated:
http://rayer.g6.cz/romos/romos.htm

On 15 January 2016 at 14:04, Sergii Kolisnyk <kolkmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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