Martin Str|mberg
2017-Mar-19 05:08 UTC
[syslinux] "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC
Ady Ady wrote:> either I would simply use optical media, or I would be partitioning and > formatting the USB device (these are _not_ complete detailed > instructions): > > _ MBR (aka "msdos" partition) scheme > _ create one partition > _ set the partition as "bootable" (aka "active" flag) > _ dd mbr.bin > _ mount the partition; format it as FAT32 > _ copy the _content_ of the ISO image to the FAT32 partition > _ install SYSLINUX on the FAT32 partition (and replace .c32 modules > with a matching version, if needed)Yes, I recommend this. I've been doing this with Debian live images successfully many times. It was some time ago I created theese, so I was using Debian 6 and 7 and thus syslinux 4.<something>. But still I found a new machine that wouldn't boot one stick and would another. IIRC, that BIOS didn't like the old CHS partitioning. The non-booting stick had a start sector of 83 (or something), while the booting one had 2048. -- MartinS
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