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Mr Anvin, is there a specific loading address used with the Syslinux bootsector (to load ldlinux.sys)? like msdos 0x70, freedos 0x60 we're trying to have a SYS program that can create bootsector for other OS's than FreeDOS only. not much luck though :( this way I'm trying to avoid the use of syslinux.exe/com (need the diskspace that it would save by not including...

HPA, is it possible to add a parameter/argument to syslinux.com/syslinux.exe to specify a file? currently it's something like SYSLINUX A: I'd like the following also to be possible: SYSLINUX A: A:\SYSLINUX.BIN It still copies LDLINUX.BIN to A:, but writes the generated bootsector intended for drive A: to a 512byte user-specified file Perhaps to allow both at the same time even SYSLINUX A: A: A:\SYSLINUX.BIN could be possible SYSLINUX [place-to-copy-ldlinux.bin-to] [place(s) where to put bootsector(file)] I'm supporting 8086+ instead of 386+, so I need another bootload...

Hello Recently I've been happily experimenting with syslinux, replacing grub and my old bootmanager. All works beautifully, but I have one question - in case of .bss bootsectors - what exactly and under what circumstances is patched in ? With syslinux used as main bootmanager - bootsectors from xp64, xp32 and [pre-syslinux] msdos 7.1 (98se) work perfectly fine when chainloaded natively as .bs (and dos also as .bss). PS. By the way - there's another "trick&q...

HPA, I believe that support to boot windows CD bootsectors was broken in 3.05. I have tested 2.13, 3.00, 3.02, 3.05, 3.06, 3.08, 3.11, and 3.20pre6. All versions >= 3.05 are broken. All versions <= 3.02 work fine with the same config. The error message I get is: ================================================================ IOSLINUX 3.20 3.20-pre...

Hi! Facing a strange problem about not being able to access the floppy drive after booting from a rescue-floppy with 2.2.x kernel on an asus p4te mainboard, i searched the net and found a bug in the bootsector of the 2.2.x kernels. Before control is redirected to the kernel, the floppy drive is shut down in a way, that freezes the FD-Controller on recent mainboards (like the ASUS P4T-E). The Syslinux-Bootsector (at least until version 1.72) uses the same method of "stopping" the floppy; this ma...

...y > from the folders on the live linux CD or DVD, and in this way is bootable not much differently than having the disk fileset on a > bootable FAT or NTFS USB drive. > Linux is not "installed", just the live disk behavior is obtained. > Later, using grub to address the proper bootsector, by chainloading either to a windows NT bootsector or syslinux > bootsector, either windows or linux are booted from the grub menu. > > in this simple application, syslinux is used as a direct substitute for isolinux, apparently as designed It took reading your instructions to see that yo...

...en i boot from it stops on starting.... > what is the problem can anybody tell me.. > please read Syslinux and Memdisk documentation, which tell you to add 'raw' parameter. The diskette image that WinXP creates uses a Windows Millennium kernel. Either the kernel or the bootsector used on it break booting through Memdisk on purpose somehow. I'll try to test if it's only the bootsector, as http://fdos.org/AutoIndex/index?dir=kernel/&file=SYS.dev.COM is able to write a diskette bootsector for WinME. create the WinXP/ME bootdisk, then: SYS.COM A: A: /BOOTONLY if...

...f the Ext4 partition. The pointers (found with offset computed with sect1ptr0, sect1ptr1) to the extlinux configuration change between reboot without calling extlinux. I have backup the Ext4 partition boot sector between each reboot with this command: dd if=/dev/sda2 of=$VERSION_DIR/boot/syslinux/bootsector.bak ibs=60928 count=1 conv=notrunc The file comparison show an unwanted change of the sector address of the configuration folder (at the offset sect1ptr0=11A and sect1ptr1=120) If I call again extlinux -i with the wanted configuration folder, as the first time, all the following reboots finally us...

Hi, I've coded loading NT cdrom bootsector into isolinux 1.68 myself (http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#multimemdisk) and I now see you have included it in isolinux 1.73 and higher. Great!!! I tried it using isolinux 1.74 and 1.75pre2, but I cannot get it to work. It says: -- Loading Invalid or corrupt kernel image. -- I use the file extension &qu...

On 07/26/2013 01:36 PM, Raphael S Carvalho wrote: > > Bootsector is installed into the 0-512 range, whereas 2 copies of ADV > into (65536 - 2 * ADV_SIZE). > Then basically ldlinux.sys must fit between the bootsector and two > copies of ADV whose size may vary. > > The range 0-64k is laid out something like this, right?! > [0](bootsector)[512](...

...ot recognized. 2. On some platforms (vmware for example :), READING from the video memory in the 32bit mode is impossible (causes an exeption). Taking in to account that the scroll function in ilinux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c works using a memcpy of the video memory, when the linux bootsector is given control and the cursor is at the end of the screen (-1-2 lines) an exception is arisen and in the presence of it's handler in the bootloader the system halts. Both lilo and grub handle this situation - the cursor is always somewhere at the middle of the screen when the cont...

...memtestp finds a "kernel" keyword and thus can't ignore a label. regards, Bernd Blaauw -----Original Message----- From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] Sent: Wed 8/18/2004 8:52 AM To: Blaauw,Bernd B. Cc: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: Re: [syslinux] syslinux write intended bootsector to bootsectorfile support? Blaauw,Bernd B. wrote: > HPA, > > is it possible to add a parameter/argument to syslinux.com/syslinux.exe to specify a file? > currently it's something like SYSLINUX A: > I'd like the following also to be possible: > SYSLINUX A: A:\SYSLINUX.BIN...

On 07/26/2013 08:10 AM, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul, at 08:05:16AM, Raphael S.Carvalho wrote: >> Check if ldlinux.sys is larger than 64k at build time. >> >> Signed-off-by: Raphael S.Carvalho <raphael.scarv at gmail.com> >> --- >> core/Makefile | 5 +++-- >> core/ldlinux_limit.pl | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 2

Calc the size of ldlinux.sys from ldlinux.bin, and check if it exceeds the limit. ldlinux.sys must fit between the bootsector and two copies of ADV whose size may vary. Thus, the size of ldlinux.sys (limit) can be at most: 65536 - 2 * ADV_SIZE - 512. Certain file systems (such as BTRFS and UFS2) will rely on ldlinux.sys being installed on the 0-64k range, thus it can't exceed the limit, otherwise the superblock would...

...ding on creation method, one might end with such value. Example #2 Bioses try to be clever, when they see partitions not on a typical cylinder (63*255 sectors) boundary. For example, with 1MB aligned partitions, I sometimes ended with 240 or 224 heads. To my small surprise, ntldr and/or ntfs bootsector (as formatted from windows up to and including xp) actually DO require proper CHS geometry in its BPB, matching bios imaginations - just hidden sectors is not enough. When I cloned windows partitions from one pc to another, I sometimes ended with unbootable windows (and simple hexedit /dev/what...

...pointers (found with offset computed with sect1ptr0, sect1ptr1) to the extlinux configuration change between reboot without calling extlinux. >> >> I have backup the Ext4 partition boot sector between each reboot with this command: >> dd if=/dev/sda2 of=$VERSION_DIR/boot/syslinux/bootsector.bak ibs=60928 count=1 conv=notrunc >> The file comparison show an unwanted change of the sector address of the configuration folder (at the offset sect1ptr0=11A and sect1ptr1=120) >> >> If I call again extlinux -i with the wanted configuration folder, as the first time, all the fo...

Apparently there's a semi-new feature in SYSLINUX that will allow you to, from what I've heard, boot DOS. I've got a portable USB flash drive and I've managed to make it multi-boot with disk images, but that takes quite a bit of memory. I think bootsector booting is the best way to go, but I have no idea how to do it. Tell me if I've got this right: So, I want to get a flash drive to boot into DOS using SYSLINUX. 1. I use qemu/virtualization to make a virtual drive and install DOS 2. Rip out the bootsector out using dd 3. Copy the bootsector.bs...

Okay, spending the time to dot t's and cross i's (or something like that), I think I have something now that can be called 3.00-worthy, so let's call it a release candidate. Changes over the earlier 3.00 prereleases: - -m and -a options now supported by the DOS installer. - PXELINUX now allows IP addresses, FQDNs, and truncated hostnames when specifying an alternate TFTP server

...ur 1st superblock at 64k. Some possible reasons: * - the first 64k blank is useful for some boot loader/manager * - the first 1M could be scratched by buggy partitioner or somesuch */ #define BTRFS_BLOCK_RESERVED_1M_FOR_SUPER ((u64)1024 * 1024) " 1MiB seems to be a reasonable size to fit bootsector + LDLINUX.SYS in. I don't know exactly how Syslinux is handling this, but it should be using the whole available space (1MiB instead). -- Paulo Alcantara, C.E.S.A.R Speaking for myself only.

...2. On some platforms (vmware for example :), READING from the video memory > in the 32bit mode is impossible (causes an exeption). Taking in to account > that the scroll function in ilinux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c > works using a memcpy of the video memory, when the linux bootsector is given > control and the cursor is at the end of the screen (-1-2 lines) an exception is > arisen and in the presence of it's handler in the bootloader the system halts. > Both lilo and grub handle this situation - the cursor is always somewhere at the > middle of the...