Mailing List Archive: booting memdisk from grub

hi, peter.

i wonder if you can help me with a problem i have. i am attempting to
use memdisk in conjunction with grub to boot dos floppy images over a
network. i realise that memdisk was designed to work with syslinux
rather than grub but i really need some of the extra features of grub
for my application.

i has some inital problems getting grub to load memdisk which turned out
to be grub performing agressive error checking (see
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-grub/2002-April/007122.html). this is
now fixed and grub seems to load memdisk and the floppy image quite
happily. when it tries to boot, however, it just hangs.

is what i'm trying to do possible? if so, do you have aby idea what i
might be doing wrong?

thanks.

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J.F.Carter http://www.jfc.org.uk/

James Carter wrote:
> hi, peter.
>
> i wonder if you can help me with a problem i have. i am attempting to
> use memdisk in conjunction with grub to boot dos floppy images over a
> network. i realise that memdisk was designed to work with syslinux
> rather than grub but i really need some of the extra features of grub
> for my application.
>
> i has some inital problems getting grub to load memdisk which turned out
> to be grub performing agressive error checking (see
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-grub/2002-April/007122.html). this is
> now fixed and grub seems to load memdisk and the floppy image quite
> happily. when it tries to boot, however, it just hangs.
>
> is what i'm trying to do possible? if so, do you have aby idea what i
> might be doing wrong?
>

I don't have the foggiest. Sorry.

GRUB does an amazing amount of stupid crap, which is why I don't even
want to begin to guess in what particular way it's broken.

-hpa