Booting a floppy image file with memdisk

David Hausheer

Memdisk enables to boot an operating system (e.g. DOS) out of a floppy disk (or hard disk) image. It can be used in conjunction with a bootloader, e.g. Syslinux, Lilo, or Grub.

Memdisk is included in Syslinux. To install memdisk in Debian Etch do:

$ apt-get install syslinux $ cp /usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk /boot/memdisk

Syslinux config file:

label dos kernel memdisk append initrd=dosboot.img

Lilo config file:

image=/boot/memdisk initrd=/boot/dosboot.img label=dos

Booting a floppy image file with memdisk

Syslinux config file:

Lilo config file:

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