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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-02-04 20:57:30 -0800 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-02-04 20:57:30 -0800 |
| commit | 3fc4c91dff9396a901d6c5056bf9828d0943aaf8 (patch) | |
| tree | c6ca7c2436bc062abe8b855c6833f10ca6a0c959 /doc | |
| parent | 8b500111ebb7d8acc037d2ebd51b42bc65229589 (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-3fc4c91dff9396a901d6c5056bf9828d0943aaf8.tar.gz | |
memdisk: update documentation
Document the nopass option, eltorito.sys is now in the standard
distro.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/memdisk.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/memdisk.txt b/doc/memdisk.txt index 254cb7c9..c7244abc 100644 --- a/doc/memdisk.txt +++ b/doc/memdisk.txt @@ -132,15 +132,22 @@ g) The following option can be used to set the real-mode stack size. stack=size Set the stack to "size" bytes +h) Some systems without a floppy drive have been known to have + problems with floppy images. To avoid that those problems, first + of all make sure you don't have a floppy drive configured on the + BIOS screen. If there is no option to configure that, or that + doesn't work, you can use the option: + + nopass Hide all real drives of the same type (floppy or hard disk) + Some interesting things to note: If you're using MEMDISK to boot DOS from a CD-ROM (using ISOLINUX), you might find the generic El Torito CD-ROM driver by Gary Tong and -Bart Lagerweij useful: - - http://www.nu2.nu/eltorito/ - +Bart Lagerweij useful. It is now included with the Syslinux +distribution, in the dosutil directory. See the file +dosutil/eltorito.txt for more information. Similarly, if you're booting DOS over the network using PXELINUX, you can use the "keeppxe" option and use the generic PXE (UNDI) NDIS |