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diff --git a/memdisk/memdisk.doc b/memdisk/memdisk.doc index e67000b9..59a23089 100644 --- a/memdisk/memdisk.doc +++ b/memdisk/memdisk.doc @@ -38,18 +38,10 @@ floppy image: 1,474,560 bytes - 1440K floppy 2,949,120 bytes - 2880K floppy -For any other size, the image is assumed to be a hard disk image (and -should typically have an MBR and a partition table.) Currently, the hard -disk is always given the geometry of 16 heads, 63 sectors (the number of -cylinders is derived from the image size) and should therefore be an even -multiple of 516,096 bytes; in a future version I plan to examine the -partition table to deduce the CHS geometry. - -SYSLINUX 1.65-pre4 does not contain what I would call a "release -quality" version of MEMDISK, but it does seem to work (I have -successfully booted DOS over the net using PXELINUX with it.) It -contains an awful lot of debugging messages at this point, for one -thing. +For any other size, the image is assumed to be a hard disk image, and +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. 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 |