[syslinux] Memdisk and big floppy images

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Syslinux folks,


For a firmware update I am following the Gentoo Wiki [1] to create a floppy
image of 20 MB, so that the vendor update utility fits.

Unfortunately, FreeDOS does not load, and it seems to hang loading the
FreeDOS kernel. The original FreeDOS image boots. Do you know if that issue
is memdisk related? It’s started from GRUB with the commands below.

    linux16 /boot/memdisk floppy
    initrd16 /boot/freedos.img
    boot


Kind regards,

Paul


[1]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/BIOS_Update#Create_a_custom_FreeDOS_image

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