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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 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...

In message <1767645779554124797 at scdbackup.webframe.org>, "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote: >Hi, > >> > debian-7.3.0-i386-netinst.iso >> This image also boots with no problems on the GA-M55Plus-S3G. > >So isohybrid boots with and without additional GPT. >It boots with partition...

It is "APM" Apple Partition Map, not "AFP" Apple Filing Protocol Reported-by: Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup at gmx.net> --- utils/isohybrid.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/utils/isohybrid.c b/utils/isohybrid.c index 05afd29..15f63fc 100644 --- a/utils/isohybrid.c +++ b/utils/isohybrid.c @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ printh(void) printf(FMT, " -t --type", &...

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote: > > 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 o...

...source of 2013-November/thread.html looks not overly repelling for search robots. HTML ... HEAD ... META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow" should lead them to the messages. Nevertheless this seems not to be usual in mailing list archives. So i made an experiment: http://scdbackup.webframe.org/syslinux_2013_11.html is a copy of 2013-November/thread.html, just missing that tag. I placed a link to it at a fewly visited corner of the web and began to watch daily. This was 8 days ago. Three days ago, "Sysinux 6 will not boot" showed up by three links to the syslinux.o...

...2 0 0 7 - 0 2 - 0001620 1 0 \0 C o p y r i g h t ( (found in Recovery Is Possible 2.9 CD image) ------------------------------------------------- For testers: The current semi-stable development snapshot of xorriso is available as http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/xorriso-0.2.7.tar.gz xorriso depends only on Linux kernel, libc and libpthread. Installation: tar xzf .../xorriso-0.2.7.tar.gz cd xorriso-0.2.7 ./configure make Use the emerging binary ./xorriso/xorriso or do as superuser make install For accessing drive device files you...

Hi, Ady wrote: > I would suggest 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...

...e_Compatibility. Check out the neighborhood. If there is a place to - for once - state how a "normal" partition table should look like, then there. The user of partitioning tools shall rather be directed to the text which currently evolves at http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/User:Scdbackup#New_Common_Problems_Bad_Heritage_on_MS_DOS_disk and only at the end of that section, there will be a link to Hardware_Compatibility#USB-Geometry. > Once the user chooses the partitioning tool, he has to change the > geometry to make it adequate. Whether the alignment is one or the > ot...

...om the input file at the offset given by variable "start". But it begins checksumming at offset 64 of the input file. The problem exists since introduction of prepcore by release 4.00. ISO 9660 programs usually fix it when they write the Boot Info Table. Signed-off-by: Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup at gmx.net> --- --- a/lzo/prepcore.c +++ b/lzo/prepcore.c @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) unsigned int ptr; outfile_len = ((offset - start + out_len + 2047) & ~2047) - (offset - start); - for (ptr = 64; ptr < offset; ptr += 4) +...

Hi, Ady: > > > I would suggest not using the work "disk". me: > > I am unhappy with "disk" too. > > But that change would have a much wider scope in the text. Ady: > 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. Two problems: There are

In message <32488642060905516076 at scdbackup.webframe.org>, "Thomas 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 partitionin...

Hi, me: > > But MiB alignment does not match 255x63 cylinders. (Or at least > > only in very large steps. They share no prime factors except > > the block size.) Ady: > It doesn't matter. My test.img for Ronald had Nx255x63 geometry, and > STARTing LBA of 2048. Yeah. It has end CHS 89,69,35. But it lacks the other ingredient of the mess: a CHS driven filesystem.

In message <16222645049513725239 at scdbackup.webframe.org>, "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote: >I currently understand that a set active/bootable flag prevents the >USB stick from showing up in BIOS, yes. >and that without that flag it >begins to boot but fails with files not found. Well, for th...

In message <52D846EC.2060303 at mattiasschlenker.de>, Mattias Schlenker <ms at mattiasschlenker.de> wrote: >Am 16.01.2014 08:17, schrieb Thomas Schmitt: >> Another candidate image would be >> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-i386-ne >tinst.iso I just happened to have a copy of this file also already, so I dd'd it to the

...El Torito and MBR. I compared the MBR produced by xorriso and the MBR which was produced by syslinux-3.72/util/isohybrid for the same image (after its end padding was removed). Again, only $id differed. ------------------------------------------------- Interested testers please download: http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/xorriso-0.2.9.tar.gz Example of writing a prepared file tree under /mnt as ISO image directly onto USB stick at /dev/sdb: xorriso -as mkisofs -o /dev/sdb \ -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \...

...conf <<EOF UI vesamenu.c32 DEFAULT linux LABEL linux LINUX /boot/bzImage APPEND root=/dev/sda1 init=/bin/ash EOF umount /mnt kpartx -d "${i}" losetup -d "${i}" kvm binary.img works but not with gpt -chris graff (dean) On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > hpa wrote: > > LBA = (C * H' * S') + (H * S') + (S - 1) > > [...] > > Start LBA 63 = CHS 0 1 1 > > End LBA 15794175 = CHS 982 254 63 > > If LBA 63 = CHS 0/1/1 then we know S'=62, but that is com...

In message <2008564557425199875 at scdbackup.webframe.org>, "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> what exactly did we determine that GA-M55Plus-S3G is failing >> to support? > >It appears to be related to the choice of CHS addressing with >the FAT filesystem....

On 05/03/2016 02:31 AM, Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux wrote: > Hi, > > John Lewis wrote: >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch >> >> The show stopper for me was the mkisofs because the closest command I >> had available was xorrisofs and I think a switch was different. > If you have questions about xorrisofs, then just ask me. :))

...neighborhood. > If there is a place to - for once - state how a "normal" partition > table should look like, then there. > > The user of partitioning tools shall rather be directed to > the text which currently evolves at > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/User:Scdbackup#New_Common_Problems_Bad_Heritage_on_MS_DOS_disk > and only at the end of that section, there will be a link > to Hardware_Compatibility#USB-Geometry. > > > > Once the user chooses the partitioning tool, he has to change the > > geometry to make it adequate. Whether the al...

> > Both sticks show very unusual factors for heads and sectors > > which are hardly intentional. If BIOS gets confused like fdisk, > > then the failure to find files is quite plausible. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Could you please exercise what is described for Linux in > >