Displaying 2 results from an estimated 2 matches for "not_perfect".
2017 Apr 15
1
FW: boot fails on some system
...oots and the other doesn't, obviously
the non-booting one doesn't like the mbr or the partitioning.
For the mbr liking:
The first 440 bytes can be any "normal" mbr. First take a backup of
the one you have on the USB stick/disk now with "dd if=/dev/sdx bs=440
count=1 of=mbr.not_perfect conv=sync".
Then put in any other one from a BIOS (UEFI system might be a bad
choice) booting hard drive. From your main system, from your Windows
system (although this might be a last resort), etc. And/Or use the
mbr.bin files from different syslinux versions. Make sure to not
disturb the pa...
2017 Apr 13
3
boot fails on some system
I used syslinux to make an external usb hard drive booting up "system rescue cd" from a FAT primary partition.
The procedure I followed was setting on the boot flag on the FAT partition and copying the content of the iso image to it and renaming isolinux to syslinux wherever needed. I then unmounted the device and ran "syslinux -d /syslinux/ -i /dev/sdxn" where sdxn is the