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...CD is laid out like below. I have tried both longhorn and w2003 CD bootsectors. The results are the same. I would be willing to try any betas to fix this, but it should be easily reproducable. You can download the wxp10.zip from the BartPE website to get the boot sector. Thanks, Michael Brown [michael_e_brown at radon isolinuxpe]$ find . . ./BOOTMGR ./BOOT.INI ./isolinux ./isolinux/isolinux.cfg ./isolinux/isolinux.bin ./isolinux/lhpe32.bin <--- longhorn CD bootsector ./build-cd.sh ./BOOT ./BOOT/BOOT.SDI ./BOOT/BOOT.WIM [michael_e_brown at radon isolinuxpe]$ cat isolinux/isolinux.cfg default winpe...

Hi all, I have merged Tim's patches to the mboot loader, and have pushed it out as 3.20-pre7. I guess I'm going to actually have to make a 3.20 here soon... -hpa

I am working on a Linux-based boot disk for my project (http://unattended.sourceforge.net/), and I have hit a snag. Under Linux 2.6, the kernel (via HDIO_GETGEO) always reports the C/H/S geometry of an IDE drive as X/16/63. But most BIOSes want to use the geometry Y/255/63. Most partitioning tools (including Parted) will take clues from an existing partition table and adapt to the BIOS values.

...e, but that doesn't work either. As soon as I kill winbindd, I can then log into the machine. The thing that DOES work and is really cool, I can do a "getent passwd" and it will dump out our NT domain database, as well as the local /etc/passwd file. I can do a "chown AMERICAS\\michael_e_brown filename" and it will work. I can do a "wbinfo -n AMERICAS\\michael_e_brown" and it will dump my SID. One interesting problem I have been having is that Linux kernel 2.2 only supports 16 bit UID, so I get some error messages when winbindd bumps up against the uid range limit. Will t...

With windows, if your "virtual" floppy is drive B:, then windows will treat it specially. It will basically copy the contents into memory from real mode using int13h, knowing that it will not be able to access the device after it switches to protected mode. I asked a few days ago about support for making a memdisk image behave as drive B:, but got no answer. :-( We have our

Windows uses several sectors in the _partition_ for booting. Windows only uses sector 0 of the Disk (the MBR), and does not use any other sectors. Other boot managers and copy protection software (the stuff that comes with TurboTax this year uses track 0, evil...) For FAT16 filesystems, only the first sector is used. For FAT32, there are 32 sectors that are reserved by the FS, and I've come

I have tried to use isolinux 2.05, and I am running into a problem where it will not boot. I have previously used version 1.66, and the older version works just fine. Changing nothing except dropping the new version in does not work. Below is all of the relevant info, I believe. This occurs on multiple machines with different BIOS. I am currently in process of doing a binary search to find the

I have another case where I see this failure as well and am expectantly waiting. Please let me know if you need anything else to debug this. isolinux 1.66 - works isolinux 2.0x - broke isolinux 2.0x with stripped directory structure - works -- Michael Brown > -----Original Message----- > From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 3:18 PM > To:

Hi all, I'm thinking of possibly trying out Google AdSense on the syslinux web pages. Before doing so, however, I'd like to hear: a) Would anyone object to such a move? (And if so, why?) b) Does anyone have good/bad experiences with AdSense that they would like to share? -hpa

I am experiencing a problem booting a machine with ISOLINUX on a machine that has no hard drive (CD-ROM only). I've tried two different machines, a Dell Poweredge 2600 and a Dell Poweredge 1300, both exhibit identical symptoms. When I boot the exact same cd on a system with a hard drive, the boot is just fine. I had been using ISOLINUX 1.66, but I just upgraded to 2.02 and I am having the

Hi! A friend of mine has tried a PXE floppy (build from the new etherboot 5.3.12) to load PXELINUX.0; a menu voice of the pxelinux.cfg use the LOCALBOOT statement. Selecting this statement, the PC retry to boot from the floppy... is this normal? The user expected that LOCALBOOT would have tried the NEXT boot device (ie CDROM or HD), not the FIRST boot device (the floppy)... (note: this has

This is a minor tweak on 3.11-pre2. If nothing new comes up, I will release this as 3.11 probably early next week. -hpa

Hpa, Dell ships a CD called Dell OpenManage Server Assistant that, starting with version 8.0 released last November, is a Linux-based bootable CD. It uses ISOLINUX to load a linux kernel/initrd combo to start the system. From version 8.0 to 8.2 we use isolinux version 1.66. Starting with version 8.3 we have upgraded to version 2.08. First of all, I'd like to say thanks for your excellent

To any interested developers: Dell Linux OS dev team is doing a lab cleanup and has several Nvidia cards available for donation. Please email me privately if you are interested (I'm not subscribed to the list). Available: various Nivdia cards. various generations, mostly quadro fx cards. We have 10-20 cards available. None of them are the super-high-end cards (that I know of). Note that

We are working on a prototype for an installation system, and it would be very useful if we could load two memdisk images, having one pretend to be normal A: drive, and another as B: drive. I have read through the docs as well as done some google searches, and haven't seen such a thing described. We have one person who has asm programming experience, and we were wondering if we could get