[syslinux:master] memdisk: update documentation

syslinux-bot for H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Feb 4 21:00:04 PST 2010


Commit-ID:  3fc4c91dff9396a901d6c5056bf9828d0943aaf8
Gitweb:     http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/3fc4c91dff9396a901d6c5056bf9828d0943aaf8
Author:     H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 20:57:30 -0800
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
CommitDate: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 20:57:30 -0800

memdisk: update documentation

Document the nopass option, eltorito.sys is now in the standard
distro.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>


---
 doc/memdisk.txt |   15 +++++++++++----
 1 files 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



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