From: H. Peter Anvin Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 04:57:30 +0000 (-0800) Subject: memdisk: update documentation X-Git-Tag: syslinux-3.85-pre6~2 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3fc4c91dff9396a901d6c5056bf9828d0943aaf8;p=profile%2Fivi%2Fsyslinux.git memdisk: update documentation Document the nopass option, eltorito.sys is now in the standard distro. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- diff --git a/doc/memdisk.txt b/doc/memdisk.txt index 254cb7c..c7244ab 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