From 3fc4c91dff9396a901d6c5056bf9828d0943aaf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 20:57:30 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] memdisk: update documentation Document the nopass option, eltorito.sys is now in the standard distro. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- doc/memdisk.txt | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.7.4