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...tition (boot flag) for Windows XP (ntfs) - various Windows partitions I can boot Fedora and the rescue Windows system with extlinux but I can't boot my regular Windows system on raid0. Raid0 is a 'fakeraid' (ich9r) but the problem should not be here. With grub, I have to swap drives to chainboot Windows using map commands. I can't find such command for extlinux and I guess this is the problem. If I try to chainboot Windows XP, it will start my rescue Windows system instead. Here's my extlinux.conf. What can I do? Thanks label Fedora menu label ^Fedora kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.3...

Hi, I am using syslinux-4.00-pre24, -pre27 and -pre31. chain.c32 fails for pre27 and pre31 for particular configs ... shown below. 1) works on pre24, fails with error message "Chainboot failed!" for pre27 and pre31 LABEL local MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL Local Boot ... (skip PXE boot) KERNEL chain.c32 APPEND hd0 0 2) works on all three. LABEL local MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL Local Boot ... (skip PXE boot) LOCALBOOT 0...

I've started using pxe servers for OS deployment at my organization and I'm trying to get chainbooting working but I seem to run into an issue that causes a hard lock up of a system. MENU BEGIN ^1. Boot Satellite PXE LABEL Satellite PXE KERNEL pxechain.com APPEND (Server IP Address)::pxelinux.0 Is part of my config file for my main pxe server to boot over to the satellite...

When you try to boot the FreeDOS kernel with 'fs' specified, chain.c32 won't boot the FreeDOS kernel. boot: chain.c32 fs freedos=kernel.sys Loading the boot file... Booting... Chainboot failed! boot: It would be nicer that chain.c32 will automatically correct 'fs' to 'boot' behavior, so it won't fail. msdos= will probably behave the same as freedos=. - Gert Hulselmans

Hi Folks, I've been playing around with SYSLINUX for a little bit; here's what I'm trying to do... My disk will have three partitions: [BOOT: (FAT16 w/ SYSLINUX)] [OS1] [OS2] OS1 and OS2 will both contain an XP Embedded system which is read-only and which will always boot from a hibernate file. What I'd like to be able to do if flip-flop between them at runtime (that is, run

Dear All: I am having trouble trying to dual-boot VMware and Linux, and I tried everything I could come up with. The situation is that /dev/sda is fully used by VMware and /dev/sdb is used by Linux. VMware uses Syslinux, so I thought this would be simple... However, it is not. The bootable FAT partition is too smal to have kernels in it. As a fallback I tried to chain-load GRUB, but that did not

...imary partitions and they will not be the first partition on the drive. Porting the syslinux configuration menus to grub is not possible nor desirable in some cases (think Ultimate Boot CD as one example). What I was hoping to do was retain the existing syslinux configurations as is and simply chainboot from grub to syslinux the same way I do to pass boot control from grub to the FreeBSD boot loader. My thinking is that this would be possible if I could get syslinux or some other utility to write a proper volume boot record to the logical partition's boot sector without altering the thumb...

Ok, despite what I said yesterday I decided to release a 2.08-pre10. The only difference over 2.08-pre9 is that I have added a small program in the "samples" directory called chain.c32. This allows chainbooting local floppies and hard disks: chain fd0 ; Chainboot the first floppy drive chain hd0 ; Chainboot the first hard drive chain hd1 3 ; Chainboot partition 3 on the second hard drive Right now only primary partitions (1-4) and the MBR are supported; however, it should be fairly easy to exten...

I'm interested in redoing doc/syslinux.txt into 2 AsciiDoc documents, splitting configuration from command. First, however, I'm requesting comments on my recent documentation of several modules I have written. My goal is to be clear, concise, and complete. Acknowledgements and constructive comments are welcome. If it would help to also post converted copies of these documents (HTML,

...les over the net. In the syslinux mailing list there is an unanswered posting which is similar to this: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2006-February/006582.html but we do not modify vfs.root.mountfrom, or rename pxeboot. I found this in the "changes in 3.36: PXELINUX: Unbreak chainbooting FreeBSD (and possibly others.) but I haven't found any information about implementing chainbooting for FreeBSD. There are a number of web pages showing how to install FreeBSD from an ISO image over the net - this is not what we want to do. We are currently using the built-in facilities o...

...hen I boot into clonezilla which uses Linux as it can modify the script, but when the second menu entry boots it will boot windows which cant easily make this change :-( which is why i need syslinux to make the change for me. The other option I am looking into right now is using syslinux to always chainboot to grub on the USB and see if that will work.

Hi Peter, I just noticed your check-in of the api headers. Are you planning on making the fat library also into an API? This would make things easier for me for my safeboot module (redundant bootloader which i mailed you about last week). I aleady moved some of the chainboot's partition finding logic into outside files, so I can add that to the API as well. thanks, Ram

Is there an option to trigger the El-Torito Code (Boot from CD) in syslinux/pxelinux? Sort of like this: LABEL CDROM Chainboot (cd0,0) Label Floppy Chainboot (fd0,0)

Goodness, how many prereleases has there been in the last week... have lost count... Anyway, I have implemented the already-promised chainbooting API, and have included a sample program to chainboot floppies (it works for harddisks too, but only for the MBR.) As a bonus, in the process I actually discovered that booting .bs/.bss images under SYSLINUX was actually broken... that has been fixed. Oh, and since it looks like the thing is...

I have released SYSLINUX 2.08-pre11. It is the same as 2.08-pre10 except I have added logical partition support to the chainbooting module (still no partition hiding or anything like that.) Unfortunately I have no way to test this at the moment, so I thought I'd release a -pre11 and see if someone was willing to take it for a spin. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ Otherwise I'll releas...

...kernel' twice module: Make list of DT_NEEDED entries per-module com32/chain/utility.c | 24 +++++--- com32/cmenu/Makefile | 17 +++++- com32/cmenu/libmenu/syslnx.c | 25 ++++++-- com32/elflink/ldlinux/chainboot.c | 4 +- com32/elflink/ldlinux/execute.c | 1 - com32/gpllib/disk/geom.c | 11 +++- com32/gpllib/disk/read.c | 25 ++++++-- com32/gpllib/disk/write.c | 26 ++++++-- com32/gp...

...2_get_right_blk() xfs: Add XFS_DINODE_FMT_BTREE support in xfs_next_extent() xfs: Add xfs_readlink() Matt Fleming (24): bufprintf: Add va_end() for our va_copy() asprintf: Ensure we always call va_end(ap) vesa: Fix double close() bug in vesacon_load_background() chainboot: Delete extraneous free() in chainboot_file() ldlinux: Never exit from ldlinux.c32 ldlinux: Don't return NULL on KEY_ESC. runimage.c: Actually pass arguments to execute() ldlinux: Automatically apply ".c32" extension for COM32 files ldlinux: Fix OnError b...

Syslinux 3.85 is a bug fix and minor new feature release. The biggest change is undoubtedly that gPXELINUX is now considered feature complete, and should be able to be a drop-in for PXELINUX for all uses. Special thanks to Intel Corporation, my current employer, for their support for my Syslinux work. Changes in 3.85: * gPXELINUX: updated to gPXE 1.0.0. gPXELINUX can now do NBP

...nal KT_* image types lib/sys/module: Add support for weak symbols elflink: Replace __intcall() with direct function calls Use pxe_call() instead of COMBOOT API com32/chain/utility.c | 30 ++------- com32/cmenu/libmenu/syslnx.c | 22 +++---- com32/elflink/ldlinux/chainboot.c | 5 +- com32/elflink/ldlinux/execute.c | 52 +++++++------- com32/elflink/ldlinux/ldlinux.c | 43 ++++++------- com32/elflink/ldlinux/readconfig.c | 16 +++++ com32/include/menu.h | 7 -- com32/include/syslinux/boot.h | 10 +++ com32/incl...

Hi, I've been trying a couple of day now, but I can't seem to figure it out. On www.etherboot.org, I found the example of configuring gPXE so that it mounts an iSCSI lun and then boot from CDROM so you are able to install on the LUN. But if I use gpxelinux.0 (latest release 3.73), with sanboot.c32 like this: label sanboot2008srv menu label ^[iscsi] Windows server 2008 kernel