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| author | hpa <hpa> | 2001-12-12 21:52:44 +0000 |
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| committer | hpa <hpa> | 2001-12-12 21:52:44 +0000 |
| commit | 6b190cc5cf21708b6aacc50c9050e074f67bed90 (patch) | |
| tree | bd03eaf65f970b3d4c9a5eca66198cda4e1d4237 /memdisk/memdisk.doc | |
| parent | 52a13b0a49a59b993fb1a38675a0c731d733d228 (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-6b190cc5cf21708b6aacc50c9050e074f67bed90.tar.gz | |
Support parsing the command line, and setting the geometry that way.syslinux-1.65-pre8
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diff --git a/memdisk/memdisk.doc b/memdisk/memdisk.doc index 59a23089..64d19df3 100644 --- a/memdisk/memdisk.doc +++ b/memdisk/memdisk.doc @@ -43,6 +43,15 @@ should typically have an MBR and a partition table. The disk C/H/S geometry is determined by examining the partition table, so the entire image should be partitioned for proper operation. +You can also specify the geometry manually with the following command +line options (currently untested): + + c=<number> Specify number of cylinders + h=<number> Specify number of heads + s=<number> Specify number of sectors + floppy The image is a floppy image + harddisk The image is a hard disk image + If you want to recompile it from sources, you will need to make sure that you have a fairly recent binutils installed. I have been using the binutils-2.11.90.0.8-9 RPM from RedHat. |