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Dear All I have a problem with my Compaq EVO n410c laptop. I want to install Windows (Win98/WinXP) on it. But this laptop don't have any floppy/cdrom to boot from. I have try to use My USB Drive to boot, using syslinux. Here's my step 1. Format the USB Drive using "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool" 2. Install syslinux (syslinux -f F:). F is my USB Drive 3. Using

I have had a problem with mkdiskimage for quite a while. It seems to always exit with the syntax messages. I'm not really familiar enough with Perl to figure out exactly what it's checking for there that it determines is incorrect, but, my guess would have to be that it doesn't like the letter. Eg, I think the last time it suceeded I was running it on sda, but, not I'm typically

...ctly? (Nazo) > 2. RE: Can't boot Syslinux from HD directly. Can indirect ly? > (Luis.F.Correia) > 3. Re: Can't boot Syslinux from HD directly. Can indirect ly? > (H. Peter Anvin) > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nazo <nazosan at gmail.com> > To: syslinux at zytor.com > Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:36:39 -0500 > Subject: Re: [syslinux] Can't boot Syslinux from HD directly. Can indirectly? > On 8/1/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > > Nazo wrote: > > > I've installed Sys...

Office Depot ran a deal with a Cruzer Micro 512MB (actually, around 488MiB) for about $20 after a rebate I may not see for months. I saw the ad yesterday and stopped by pretty well first thing this afternoon to snatch one up while they were still there since I've been having to make do with two 256MB drives to hold all the data I neded since one drive couldn't hold enough (though I must

Hi! > -----Original Message----- > From: Nazo [mailto:nazosan at gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:37 AM > To: syslinux at zytor.com > Subject: Re: [syslinux] Can't boot Syslinux from HD directly. > Can indirectly? > > > On 8/1/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > > Nazo wrote: > > > I...

I recently got a cheap PenDrive iVO which I'll be the first to admit is anything but perfect, but, a pretty decent player considering it's cost is that of the other players with half the memory. One of the things I was looking forward to was having a great bootable flashdrive with my favorite linux rescue image and a few other diagnostic/repair things. Unfortunately, since I tried to put

Hi there guys! I want to set up Puppy-Linux to run off a 2GB USB key-drive in native mode (I.e. not as a virtual machine, which I'm finding runs too slow on my system, under XP.) To test it out, I want to run off a 150GB USB HDD. Now this drive is NTFS formatted and way bigger than the 1GB file structure limit that I read about in the Syslinux documentation. There's only one

Hi, I saw a post you made on a forum quite some time ago about booting linux off a USB drive with compatible bios via ISOlinux. I'm currently trying to do the same thing and keep running into problems with my initrd. This is probably caused by the fact that I don't really know what I'm doing! I was wondering if you found any useful info on the net you could point me in the

I have been trying to boot a kernel I compiled. I tried 2 different USB thumb drives. I tried win32 syslinux 3.31 and 3.36 with no luck. I even tried another known good kernel for testing purposes. After syslinux starts I get "Invalid or corrupt kernel image" but I don't think it is even really trying to run it. The last time I built a kernel about 1-1/2 years ago you could put a

Hello all, I have a few questions about the menuing system that I haven't been able to find in the archives (it would be nice if they were available in a searchable form other than having to click on a month-by month basis and read through them - if they are searchable I would love to find a way to do this but it hasn't jumped out at me). My first question is : What is menu.c32? I

I know, this probably isn't the right place for it, but, I was just finding the nth use for syslinux and thinking yet again just how handy these tools are and just felt like saying it. Thanks for all your hard work Mr. Anvin in providing not just a massively useful tool that's open to all to use for free, but, even supporting this tool so well.

I finally got around to trying to learn how to setup and configure a PXE server on a spare system I've been using as a router/download server. It took me forever, but I finally got everything more or less together and in a working form. But it seems I'm having an unusual problem outside of all this. I never really got a TFTP server fully working. After several failed attempts on

I originally asked in a hardware/software forum, but, got basically no results. It occured to me that if anyone would know, it would be you people. What I'm wanting to do is set up a rescue disc for a really old laptop. It needs to boot up a linux based CD, hopefully with minimal to no working stuff on the harddrive (I plan to put a floppy image to be written to a disk when needed to do the

I just now finally got around to redoing my grandmother's harddrive -- moving everything from a NTFS partition to FAT32 so I could set up rescue discs, be able to make repairs, and other such things that would then be able to safely write data to her primary partition. My resulting setup was a three partition drive with the first partition being a ~256MB EXT2 partition for boot files, the

I like how some cds, such as the windows installer discs will skip booting from the disc if you accidentally left the drive because they require you to hit a key to make them actually boot from the disc. I've kind of tried to emulate this behavior using chain.c32, but, it requires me to specify which harddrive, and I'd rather see an independant setup. I've tried localboot -1, but, it

> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> > To: SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:12:18 -0700 > Subject: [syslinux] Survey: SYSLINUX: 2.13 works, 3.0x don't > Okay, this applies particularly to SYSLINUX, not ISO/PXE/EXTLINUX. > > If you have a system on which 2.13 boots and 3.0x don't, I would like to > get as much information as

Lately I've been finding that most versions of Syslinux no longer work in the various linux distros I use them in (primarily Mandriva 2006 and Finnix.) When I try to run binaries such as the extlinux it produces the error "bash: ./extlinux/extlinux: cannot execute binary file" which it says for each of the major binaries. As nearly as I can tell, everything but the scripts in fact.

I've finally gotten around to playing with the advanced menu, though the complex example is definitely still beyond me. I'm trying to figure out a few basics from it, such as the tab key for line editing (don't know what I've done wrong here since it seems like I copied that part right) and the timeout. It looks to me like the only ontimeout implemented so far is an option to not

I've been using a USB flash drive for quite a while now, and in my previous system it worked great, but, I find with my new motherboard now that I have upgraded I can't boot it. So I decided to try the trick mentioned in the README.usbkey file where you make a ZIP drive like image on the flash drive and set the BIOS to boot a USB ZIP drive instead. Unfortunately, it still doesn't

I decided to install Win2K on my "retrogaming/htpc" system to take advantage of the dual processors in the thing when I'm multitasking a lot, but, it's kind of annoying having to use first one bootloader to chainload my Windows 98 partition, then, via NTLDR, selection Windows 2000 to get to Win2k. I tried using the recovery console to try to force it to write a boot sector to