Hello! I own an Ipod shuffle (512MB) and I am having trouble booting from it using syslinux 3.10pre8 (I have not tested older versions). I guess the Ipod shuffle works just like an ordinary USB key with a FAT32 partition so I have read http://syslinux.zytor.com/usbkey.php. My BIOS identifies it as a hard disk, so I hope I do not have to modify the geometry. Windows assigns the drive letter g: to it. Here is what I did: syslinux -sma g: (there is no error msg) But all I get after the reboot is: SYSLINUX 3.10 3.10-pre8 EBIOSLoad error - Boot error What should I try to do? Modify the geometry? Cheers Alex
>Hello! > >I own an Ipod shuffle (512MB) and I am having trouble booting from it >using syslinux 3.10pre8 (I have not tested older versions). > >I guess the Ipod shuffle works just like an ordinary USB key with a >FAT32 partition so I have read http://syslinux.zytor.com/usbkey.php. > >My BIOS identifies it as a hard disk, so I hope I do not have to modify >the geometry. Windows assigns the drive letter g: to it. > >Here is what I did: >syslinux -sma g: (there is no error msg) > >But all I get after the reboot is: >SYSLINUX 3.10 3.10-pre8 EBIOSLoad error - Boot error > >What should I try to do? Modify the geometry?Try it without any options. syslinux g: Then try version 3.09 of syslinux, without and with options. Maybe the '-m' option caused the problem, and the mbr will still be there and keep causing it.
>> Then try version 3.09 of syslinux, without and with options. >> >> Maybe the '-m' option caused the problem, and the mbr >> will still be there and keep causing it. > >you were right: syslinux 3.09 works without problems. I will check the >pre-releases to find out which one broke USB booting.Then it would be a post 3.09 problem. You mean you'll check the 3.10 pre-releases.
Alexander Heinz wrote:> Hello! > > I own an Ipod shuffle (512MB) and I am having trouble booting from it > using syslinux 3.10pre8 (I have not tested older versions). >Motherboard/bios details, please? -hpa
>> I own an Ipod shuffle (512MB) and I am having trouble booting from it >> using syslinux 3.10pre8 (I have not tested older versions). >> > > Motherboard/bios details, please?Tested with 2 Laptops: - Dell Inspiron 6000 series, Bios Revision A04 (02/02/2005), Pentium M 1.6GHz - unknown brand, Phoenix Bios 4.0 Release 6.0 R01-A0Q, Pentium M 1.7GHz Alex