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...hing concrete. We are using Syslinux and a FAT32 USB thumb drive (single partition) to boot a customized Debian OS which works very well with newer motherboards. However we have a few older Dell machines that simply hangs when trying to boot using the same drive. Someone suggested that we try FAT16 filesystem which I created using Ubuntu disk utility and as well as mkdosfs command line utility. I reduced the partition size to 1 GB for FAT16. Neither worked. However a colleague created a FAT16 drive on a Windows machine and that booted just fine on the Dell. So my question is there some...

...ing Syslinux and a FAT32 USB thumb drive > (single partition) to boot a customized Debian OS > which works very well with newer motherboards. > However we have a few older Dell machines that > simply hangs when trying to boot using the same > drive. Someone suggested that we try FAT16 > filesystem which I created using Ubuntu disk > utility and as well as mkdosfs command line > utility. I reduced the partition size to 1 GB for > FAT16. Neither worked. However a colleague created > a FAT16 drive on a Windows machine and that booted > just fine on the Dell....

Hi, I just found syslinux gives corrupt data when reading files from a FAT16 partition. The fat16 implementation was using the reserved Dir_FstClusHi (offset 20 in the directory entry, name quoted from VFAT spec from Microsoft) which is supposed to be 0 for FAT12 and FAT16. Linux ignores this and never uses the Dir_FstClusHi cluster with 0 for FAT16/12, so it works fine. &...

On 07/09/2014 04:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > So this would seem consistent that this is the FAT12/FAT16 boundary that > breaks stuff. Perhaps FreeDOS has a problem with FAT16 on floppies? If I understand things correctly, a bootable floppy has two key pieces of executable code: the 512-byte boot sector, and the kernel loaded by that boot sector. The kernel can be large, and thus could perhaps...

On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:54, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >On 07/08/2014 11:26 AM, Ady wrote: >> >> It's interesting that you ask this, because every document related to >> newmkfloppyimg.sh specifically recommends adding: >> floppy c=$CYLINDERS s=$SECTORS h=$HEADS >> to the MEMDISK arguments. >> > >It would be important for floppies to know

forgive me.. i have no idea what im asking or if its possible... i have 2 partitions as follows and am using the std windows xp bootloader to boot xp - ntfs (windows xp) - fat16 stupid question is... can i use syslinux, isolinux, memdisk or some combo there of to place a bootable cdrom iso image on the fat16 partition and then have a boot menu with something to the effect of : 1) winxp as normal 2) bootable cd image thats on fat16 partition timeout : 30 secs to #1 choo...

Hello, I noticed after upgrading from 3.20, I haven't been able to get syslinux to boot properly with menu.c32 or mboot.c32 from a USB key. I get an error saying invalid kernel when its trying to load menu.c32 or mboot.c32 (or any other kernel for that matter). I tried 3.35 and 3.36-pre5. Same exact behaviour. I'm using the following to compile: gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux

Hi, "Mircea Popescu" <nufarul.alb at go.ro> schrieb am 29.01.02: > I have this problem: > I've partitioned my hard drive with PQMagic 7 in the following way: > hda1 - fat32 > hda2 - ext2 > hda3 - fat16 > hda4 - extended > hda5 - Linux Swap > hda6 - fat32 > hda7 - ext2 > hda8 - fat32 > > I've put syslinux on hda3, but it fails to boot. Did syslinux even start? What did it tell you? Is any of these partitions activated? Which system wrote the M...

Hi to all, from syslinux 4.06 and 5.00 pre 12 came the same dump. Background: While trying to install syslinux on small (700 MB) FAT16 Partition on HP Server got Red Screen of Death with a register dump. Illegal OpCode EAX=00001F01 EBX=000001A4 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000019F EBP=0000FBFA ESI=000007BE EDI=00000800 DS=0000 ES=0000 FS=0000 GS=0000 CS:EIP=0000:000083A6 SS:ESP=1000:0000AFF6 EFLAGS=00000206 Can somebody interpret the re...

...ne. Then I used the same procedure but made some changes to the file system. I then ran syslinux on the new image. This also worked fine, and the CD boots. In both these cases floppy emulation, size 2.88, was used and everything worked as expected. I then made a bigger FAT file system image (FAT16) and copied the same files into the larger image (that is, the same files that worked with floppy emulation mode). I then ran mkisofs on the new image, using the flag "-hard-disk-boot". I tried creating the image in several ways but I haven't hit on the correct one yet. I creat...

...from a hard drive, by dd'ing a Linux (LRP) image onto the drive and then running syslinux (i.e. dd if=the_image of=/dev/hda followed by a syslinux /dev/hda), however I'm having problems getting it to work from a partition on the hardrive. I'm trying to use syslinux on a small 100MB FAT16 partition (same commands as before, just replacing /dev/hda with /dev/hda1), but on boot I get the error: "Error booting operating system". The hard drive is a 40GB drive with hda1 being, as mentioned before, a 100MB FAT16 partition, and the rest includes a couple of ext2 partitions....

Hi all, I've tried and retried to make some USB sticks bootable. I started by making one partition, labeling it FAT16, copying a kernel, an initrd and a very simple syslinux.cfg file. I ran syslinux /dev/sda1 on it. Didn't boot. I tried placing on it the mbr.bin file ('cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda') but still no boot. Then I tried various combinations of these two. Labeling the partition Linux. Runn...

I know syslinux supports FAT16 and works very well, but how about FAT32? Does syslinux support FAT32? If so, which version? eg., 3.11 and above Thanks!

...some of these > structures work and how they've changed over time. > That was what I was afraid of... > extlinux lets the Linux kernel do all of the heavy lifting of > installing the file then finding its blocks then performs the same > modifications as syslinux does on FAT12/FAT16/FAT32. extlinux has > less knowledge about ext2/ext3/ext4 and FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 file systems > (basically 0 outside the FAT32 VBR format) than syslinux does about > FAT12/FAT16/FAT32. > "kernel do all of the heavy lifting", i.e. it doesn't actually try to modify sectors...

...sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf672aa0a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 62 3928567 1964253 6 FAT16 root at debian64:~# 2) Downloaded latest syslinux: root at debian64:~# /home/martin/syslinux-4.05/linux/syslinux -v /home/martin/syslinux-4.05/linux/syslinux 4.05 Copyright 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al root at debian64:~# 3) Installed boot code to MBR: root at debian64:~# dd if=/home/marti...

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 from OS1 and then programatically select the OS to boot into on...

...C: was a horrible nightmare in VMware Workstation 64bit under Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. I kept getting a 'syslinux sector reading error' message all the time. Situation was solved by getting a MSDOS 6.22 bootdisk from bootdisk.com, then performing Fdisk and Format in my virtual machine (FAT16 thus) to get a full 1GB harddisk with a single 1GB primary FAT16 partition, then 'syslinux.com c:' (syslinux 2.11) then again 'syslinux.com C:' (syslinux 3.83). After that I added the remainder of the files (memdisk, my iso, and syslinux.cfg) to get into a working state. Is the...

...r> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br> /dev/hdc1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS<br> /dev/hdc2 1276 30400 233946562+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)<br> /dev/hdc5 1276 7649 51199123+ 6 FAT16<br> /dev/hdc6 7650 14023 51199123+ 6 FAT16<br> /dev/hdc7 14024 20397 51199123+ 6 FAT16<br> /dev/hdc8 20398 26771 51199123+ 6 FAT16<br> /dev/hdc9 26772 26784 104391 83 Linux<br> /...

Hi All: I found this old message on the web archives. I've gotten Xen working with PXELinux, albeit with something of a hack. The basic chain is: 1. pxelinux 2. memdisk 3. FAT16 floppy image 4. grub installed on floppy image 5. xen.gz and vmlinuz on floppy image While this seems pretty simple, the key bits were to use: 1. FAT16 (not ext2, etc) for the floppy image 2. use the 'raw' flag when booting the floppy with memdisk I've documented the whole mess here:...

...onditions for them to be able to boot. The easiest way to achieve the adequate conditions is to create an MS-DOS 7.1 boot disk, test it, and then install SYSLINUX on it. Additional potential problems might be the C/H/S values (FreeDOS is more tolerant in this regard), and using FAT32 instead of FAT16. Yes, Win98 already supports FAT32, but I admit that I don't exactly recall which filesystem (and max size) its MS-DOS counterpart supports. Another test you could perform: build a boot floppy image with these io.sys / msdos.sys / command.com files and boot it by means of memdisk (not with...