I was working on making a 40gb laptop ide drive bootable via syslinux as the drive is in an external hd enclosure. syslinux installed on a 100 mb bootable fat32 partition and when I tried to boot from the drive, I got a syslinux prompt which was correct as I had not done a config file yet. I later found a 60GB laptop ide drive and put the larger drive in the enclosure and tried to install syslinux on that, using the same 100mb fat32 boot partition. This time no joy. I get an error indicating that no OS can be found. I triple checked and followed the exact same procedure in both cases, so I'm lost as to what is wrong. I can go back to the 40gb drive for sure, but this kind of stuff always interests me. Is there a non-bug reason why this wouldn't work, like a drive size limit in syslinux? P.S.: it was syslinux-4.03 Thanks, Rance
On Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 17:16:00, Rance Hall wrote:> Is there a non-bug reason why this wouldn't work, like a drive size > limit in syslinux?It's probably some kind of BIOS limitation (or bug) - try updating your laptop's BIOS first. Also, how are you booting off the USB drive - by using the USB-HDD option in BIOS, or by selecting the USB disk by name from among the Hard drives? -- < Jernej Simon?i? ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ > Everything goes wrong at once. -- Thyme's Law
My problem with syslinux-4.03 was resolved in syslinux-4.04-pre7. Give it a try! Juergen Am 09.03.11 17:16, schrieb Rance Hall:> I was working on making a 40gb laptop ide drive bootable via syslinux > as the drive is in an external hd enclosure. > > syslinux installed on a 100 mb bootable fat32 partition and when I > tried to boot from the drive, I got a syslinux prompt which was > correct as I had not done a config file yet. > > I later found a 60GB laptop ide drive and put the larger drive in the > enclosure and tried to install syslinux on that, using the same 100mb > fat32 boot partition. > > This time no joy. > > I get an error indicating that no OS can be found. > > I triple checked and followed the exact same procedure in both cases, > so I'm lost as to what is wrong. > > I can go back to the 40gb drive for sure, but this kind of stuff > always interests me. > > Is there a non-bug reason why this wouldn't work, like a drive size > limit in syslinux? > > P.S.: it was syslinux-4.03 > > Thanks, > > Rance > > _______________________________________________ > Syslinux mailing list > Submissions to Syslinux at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > >