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Bean wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:43 AM, walt<w41ter@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> ...I'm using grub4dos because
>> grub2 won't (yet) boot a floppy image or chainload Vista's bootmgr.

> Hi,
>
> Well, you can actually achieve these function with some external
> tools. Using memdisk, you can emulate a floppy/harddisk image, and
> with loadbin, you can chainload ntldr/bootmgr/grldr/stage2, etc.

Hi Bean,

Have you tried booting a dos floppy image with memdisk lately?

I just tried memdisk-3.52 on two different machines using both legacy
and grub2, and nothing worked.  After printing several lines of info
and some hex numbers it prints this:

Loading boot sector...booting...
Starting...

and then the machine hangs forever, needing a hard reset to reboot.
My test image was made from a fresh and tested floppy which I made
using WinXP.

Can anyone duplicate this?  Or not?

Thanks!