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On 01/21/2014 11:13 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > My current theory is that vendors prefer to record > a cylinder aligned end CHS address over recording > an end CHS address which exploits the whole capacity. > This is used as an (inofficial ?) protocol to publish > the CHS factors H' and S'. > Indeed it is -- at least some BIOSes "deduce" the H/S to use

...specially when used near "MS-DOS". We are talking > about "partition tables". I am unhappy with "disk" too. But that change would have a much wider scope in the text. "Disk" is the term used by the starting point of the partitioning endeavor in SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk "In order to create a bootable disk using SYSLINUX, prepare a normal MS-DOS formatted disk." > It works on GPT too. This is hopefully a feature, not a problem. :o) > Don't worry. The wiki is there to be improved. My change shall already start as improvement. Have a ni...

Hi, > 1_ "create a new DOS partition table"; > 2_ create a new partition; > 3_ format it. This could be added to http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk statement: "In order to create a bootable disk using SYSLINUX, prepare a normal MS-DOS formatted disk." Like "If in doubt, make a backup of your disk content, create a new DOS partition table, create a new partition, and format it. Take care not to spoil your other d...

Hi, i have now sparsely modified the last paragraph of http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk added a new section http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Common_Problems#Bad_Heritage_on_MS_DOS_disk and a new article http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/What_is_a_SYSLINUX_disk_%3F My proposal is to place a link to the new article at all wiki occasions, where the reader might wonder w...

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:51:16AM -0500, Gene Cumm via Syslinux wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 4:16 AM, piranna at gmail.com <piranna at gmail.com> wrote: > >>> could it be implemented? If that's not possible, what's doing SysLinux > >> > >> Consider bios/mtools/syslinux > > > > Just what I needed, thanks! :-D I have not seen any

On 01/19/2014 03:47 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > Doesn't the Syslinux project provide (hopefully strong) specific > reccomendations, to its user base, for how these things should best > be done, you know, in order to insure maximal interoperability? > We try (see our wiki), but those recommendations can only come from mass testing across many, many systems -- which we

...t would make sense to add a little note about >> > it? > > Yes, http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Syslinux_Project > is indeed a wiki. So please add you think that is missing. I was following the instructions at http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk, there's no reference to mtools on that page. Maybe they should be unified? >> > And regarding to the extra modules (menu.c32 and so), I need to add >> > them previously by hand, isn't it? Just to be sure... >> >> Yes, along with any dependent library COM32 f...

...note about > >> > it? > > > > Yes, http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Syslinux_Project > > is indeed a wiki. So please add you think that is missing. > > I was following the instructions at > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk, > there's no reference to mtools on that page. Maybe they should be > unified? > > > >> > And regarding to the extra modules (menu.c32 and so), I need to add > >> > them previously by hand, isn't it? Just to be sure... > >> > >> Yes,...

Hi, Ronald F. Guilmette: > > Doesn't the Syslinux project provide (hopefully strong) specific > > reccomendations, [...] hpa: > We try (see our wiki), The general wiki http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk says "In order to create a bootable disk using SYSLINUX, prepare a normal MS-DOS formatted disk." which would not have helped me to avoid Ronald's problem. I would have considered any existing FAT as "normal". Maybe one should add a link to a new section "Possible...

Hi, hpa: > The mkdiskimage tool in the Syslinux distribution exists for this reason. Then http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk should point to a tutorial for mkdiskimage. I cannot spot any occurence of "mkdiskimage" in http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/HowTos Is there already a description at other places ? me: > > This is used as an (inofficial ?...

..., me: > > Please enable editing. Gene Cumm: > Done. Thanks. I have now edited http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility#USB-Miscellaneous ------------------------------------------------------------ Next i'll try to develop a user oriented hint for SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk which takes into respect the opinions of Ady, Mattias, me, and of any other who has a viewpoint to add. This needs well thought, because it might be the first thing which an annoyed and partially clueless user reads about mad USB sticks. Have a nice day :) Thomas

...OS". We are talking > > about "partition tables". > > I am unhappy with "disk" too. > But that change would have a much wider scope in the text. > > "Disk" is the term used by the starting point of the partitioning > endeavor in SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk > "In order to create a bootable disk using SYSLINUX, > prepare a normal MS-DOS formatted disk." > You can still use a different wording in a linked section. If "disk" is not the best choice for the new section, then choose a better term. > > > It wor...

...homas Schmitt" <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote: >I am unhappy with "disk" too. >But that change would have a much wider scope in the text. s/disk/mass storage device/g >"Disk" is the term used by the starting point of the partitioning >endeavor in SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk > "In order to create a bootable disk using SYSLINUX, > prepare a normal MS-DOS formatted disk." Times change. Terminology must be adjusted to keep up. Regards, rfg

Hi, i now realized that http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility#USB-Geometry http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility#USB-Miscellaneous are the new wiki sections by Gene Cumm. (Sorry for not reading them when they were announced.) So i ask especially him whether the statement "An examle is a drive of 128,64,32 with a partition ending at

Now in a new thread with updated subject. ----- Forwarded message from Thomas Schmitt ----- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:45:51 +0100 >From: Thomas Schmitt To: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: Re: [syslinux] Advice/directions to users of Syslinux Message-Id: <29490645553171871372 at scdbackup.webframe.org> Reply-To: For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com> Hi, i

...est adding an internal link to respctive sections of the > wiki, not more text in the same page. This is reasonable. Please have a look at http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/User:Scdbackup The first section shall become the new text of http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk The second section shall become a new section Bad Heritage on MS-DOS disk in http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Common_Problems [about USB Geometry] > My point was about the several possible ways such wording could be > interpreted by different users when reading them in the Sysli...

> Hi, > > Ronald F. Guilmette: > > > Doesn't the Syslinux project provide (hopefully strong) specific > > > reccomendations, [...] > > hpa: > > We try (see our wiki), > > The general wiki > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk > says > "In order to create a bootable disk using SYSLINUX, prepare a normal > MS-DOS formatted disk." > which would not have helped me to avoid Ronald's problem. > I would have considered any existing FAT as "normal". > > Maybe one should add a lin...

Hi, Ady wrote: > I personally don't like this "hiding" [of CHS], but I understand > their reasons to do so. > > I think that the "USB-Geometry" section in the wiki should try to > point to the same kind of users. But it is in wiki page Hardware_Compatibility. Check out the neighborhood. If there is a place to - for once - state how a "normal"