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...e $MCOPY ldlinux.sys $LETTER: # values from syslinux.c (calculated and converted to base 10); # these are the offset and length of the portion of the boot sector # which stays the same and is not to be altered by copying in the # SYSLINUX boot sector. BSCOPYSTART=11 BSCOPYLEN=51 # xpread(dev_fd, sectbuf, 512, offset); # memcpy(bootsect+bsCopyStart, sectbuf+bsCopyStart, bsCopyLen); # xpwrite(dev_fd, bootsect, 512, offset); $DD if=$IMAGE of=$TEMP bs=512 count=1 $DD conv=notrunc if=ldlinux.bss of=$IMAGE bs=512 count=1 $DD conv=notrunc if=$TEMP of=$IMAGE bs=1 seek=$BSCOPYSTART skip=$BSCOPYSTART count=...

...m not wrong since it's my first patch). diff --git a/linux/syslinux.c b/linux/syslinux.c index 37a54fd..5d38e6f 100644 --- a/linux/syslinux.c +++ b/linux/syslinux.c @@ -316,7 +316,6 @@ void do_umount(const char *mntpath, int cookie) int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { static unsigned char sectbuf[SECTOR_SIZE]; - unsigned char *dp; const unsigned char *cdp; int dev_fd, fd; struct stat st; @@ -498,7 +497,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) goto umount; } - dp += nb; + cdp += nb; left -= nb; } -- regards liu Aleaxander

Hello, Happy New Year! These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that. I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids confusing others, I will