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I used syslinux 4.03 for my brand new usb-stick (16GB FAT32, no Partition Table). It works, but on some computers i get "boot error". My investigation reveals three bugs in the boot code. Int 13 function 8 destroys the contents of register ES. Ah, now it is corrected in version 4.04 pre 5. Well done. I am happy now. But there are still other bugs. Look on version 4.04 pre 5,

I have a 2gig usb drive FAT formatted with 32K cluster I used syslinux 3.06 to create a boot sector so that I could boot Damn Small Linux, INSERT and memtest86. They are all working fine. I have a DOS bootable CD and have been following this guy's instructions... http://fuzzymunchkin.dyndns.org/tdot/usbkeyfob/index.php3 I used a WinXP floppy formatted with the 'make ms-dos bootdisc'

...o use the commandline (because some numbers eg 2, 7 and necessary characters eg :, = are NOT mapped at all) I'd like to have a conclusive answer so we can fix this for syslinux (and have belgian keyboard configured everywhere). I'd like to integrate this with footprint to create custom bootdiscs that fix this for non-us keyboard users :) Thanks in advance, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]