Op 14-1-2012 23:23, Eric Auer schreef: > Talking about new ways of booting, it would be very interesting to > have a CD / DVD / BD boot loader for DOS. However, after you loaded > the kernel, you still need some "initrd" from which you can load a > CD/... driver pair like UIDE + SHSUCDX or ...CDROM + MSCDEX. As we > use MEMDISK (a bootable RAMDISK which can be loaded by any bootmenu > which can load Linux) for that now anyway, the only gain would be a > little bit of memory saving: Instead of booting a ramdisk, the boot > loader itself would somehow give access to a FAT diskimage on CD/...
How about this? : http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK#ISOHYBRID_images Unfortunately I've got no idea how it technically works, or how it would apply to DOS. Perhaps a bootsector with hardcoded sector address for the FreeDOS kernel, just like Syslinux uses for its LDLINUX.SYS I wouldn't mind the extra flexibility, as some people like harddisk-style emulation instead of CD. label ramhdd # load hybrid as virtual partitioned HDD, contents is read-only FAT? linux memdisk initrd hybrid.iso # load hybrid ISO as virtual CD, contents is read-only ISO9660 label ramiso linux memdisk initrd hybrid.iso append iso Now how exactly did we end up on the users list with all this technical mumbo jumbo? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
