[syslinux] [memdisk] remote boot fails: Non-System disk error
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jan 13 12:59:55 PST 2005
Salman Haq wrote:
> Peter, thanks for the reply.
> I specified "h=2 s=18" and memdisk correctly auto discovered #cylinders
> as 920. But that still doesn't do the trick.
> When I do a 'cat' on the 16MB image and looks at the first few pages on
> the screen, it looks identical to the original 1.44 MB image. So I guess
> the boot sector is being copied correctly. But then why does the big
> image appear to be a non-system disk?
Because you copied, verbatim, a 1.44 MB filesystem. The filesystem
doesn't change size just because you dd it onto a larger device.
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