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On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > In message <70229.1390169666 at server1.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote: > >>In message <52DC29E3.7080004 at mattiasschlenker.de>, >>Mattias Schlenker <ms at mattiasschlenker.de> wrote: >> >>>To cut a log story short, we probabl...

In message <70229.1390169666 at server1.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote: >In message <52DC29E3.7080004 at mattiasschlenker.de>, >Mattias Schlenker <ms at mattiasschlenker.de> wrote: > >>To cut a log story short, we probably should write some advices for best >>practices of creating bootable media... >... >...

...it adequate. Whether the alignment is one or the > other, it shouldn't matter (in the context of the Syslinux wiki, and > trying to improve bootability). We have strong evidence meanwhile that Ronald's two problem sticks both bear deceiving H and S in their end CHS. See ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/ady/ubcd.0 end CHS is 969, 21, 21 ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/ady/oe.0 end CHS is 492, 150, 42 We do not know for sure whether changing the end CHS of ubcd to 242,254,63 would fix it. But i think everybody will agree that "22 heads, 21 sectors/track" i...

On Sat, 2014-01-11 at 06:31 -0500, Gene Cumm wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette > <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > > Unfortunately, regardless of whether I perform Step #4 (i.e. running > > the "makeboot.bat" script) while logged in as a user with Admin privs, > > > Accessing physical drive: Access is denied. > > Did not successfully...

...for backup systems which rely upon the file system like rsync. Hope this helps. -------------------------------------------------------------------- This email is protected by LBackup, an open source backup solution http://www.lbackup.org On 2/10/2015, at 9:48 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote: > > In message <560CE706.303 at sanitarium.net>, > Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote: > >> Yes, when it comes to local copies cp is significantly faster than >> rsync. Without --link-dest there isn't much advantage to using rsync...

...ment is one or the > > other, it shouldn't matter (in the context of the Syslinux wiki, and > > trying to improve bootability). > > We have strong evidence meanwhile that Ronald's two problem sticks > both bear deceiving H and S in their end CHS. See > ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/ady/ubcd.0 > end CHS is 969, 21, 21 > ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/ady/oe.0 > end CHS is 492, 150, 42 > > We do not know for sure whether changing the end CHS of > ubcd to 242,254,63 would fix it. > But i think everybody will agree that &quot...

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

...y is great for file verifying. The -n option on it tells it to rename incorrect files. Then you can just do a simple rsync pass to delete the incorrectly named files and put back the now missing files. On 10/01/2015 01:53 AM, Perry Hutchison wrote: > "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote: > >> P.S. I really do hope that I can get this to work with rsync. I >> do prefer not reinventing the wheel, but it is starting to seem >> simpler to me if I were to just write a Perl script that would >> walk two directory hierarchies, in parallel, a...

In message <BLU0-SMTP145A44932CB6CC2DB4621568BB30 at phx.gbl>, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: >> Is there something specific I should try? /boot/syslinux ? >> > >>From the syslinux boot prompt in UBCD you could try: >/boot/syslinux/config.c32 /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg /boot/syslinux/ > >(Yes, it is the same basic absolute path, three times, all

Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net>, I thank you greatly for your attempts to educate me, however as we get deeper into discussing more and more different rsync options, I feel that I am actually just getting more confused and frustrated. I've been sitting here, trying all sorts of different combinations and permutations of the various options we've discussed, and that you've

"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote: > P.S. I really do hope that I can get this to work with rsync. > I do prefer not reinventing the wheel, but it is starting to seem > simpler to me if I were to just write a Perl script that would > walk two directory hierarchies, in parallel, and just repeatedly >...

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, regardless of whether I perform Step #4 (i.e. running > the "makeboot.bat" script) while logged in as a user with Admin privs, > Accessing physical drive: Access is denied. > Did not successfully update the MBR; continuing......

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote: > In message <BLU0-SMTP145A44932CB6CC2DB4621568BB30 at phx.gbl>, > Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: >>I don't know why syslinux.cfg would be correctly found in the same >>USB drive when plugged in to other systems but not in this one. > >...

...rectly believes that the static IP address of my outbound mail server is on a dynamic IP, and thus it (Hotmail) refuses all e-mail from me. This forces me to give you the information via this mailing list. If you have test images that you would like me to try, you may place them here: Host: ftp.tristatelogic.com Path: /private/ady/ My FTP server is set up for anonymous FTP (only) and the above directory is world writable. Please note that the /private/ directory is *not searchable* Thus, if you cd to that directory and try to get a directory listing, you will be unable to do so. Please note also...

In message <49973.1389992217 at server1.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote: > >In message <52D90648.4010900 at mattiasschlenker.de>, >Mattias Schlenker <ms at mattiasschlenker.de> wrote: > >>I would be personally interested in the following experiment: >> >> 1. Download this LessLinux test build: >> h...

...that still don't boot on the Gigabyte motherboard. One of these has a recent vintage Ultimate Boot CD on it and the other has a recent vintage OpenELEC on it. In each case, I captured both stdout and stderr, together in one output file. Please find the following four files here: ftp://ftp.tristatelogic.com/private/ady/ ubcd.0 -- results of the first command shown above, when executed against the UBCD USB stick ubcd.1 -- results of the second command shown above, when executed against the UBCD USB stick oe.0 -- results of the first command shown above,...

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/152154 It has been suggested to me (by a committer) that I should raise the issue of this PR here on these lists, because the problem described within the PR remains a real problem, and despite my having proposed something that seems to be a perfectly workable fix, no action has been taken on this PR for some years now. Regards, rfg P.S. The

In message <35321.1389823644 at server1.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote: Ady>I hope this email encourages you to try the procedure and report Ady>back. > >Thank you for your kindness and efforts, but no, not really. It just >doesn't appear to be worth any further investment of time at this point. To further clarify, I still do...

In message <CAD0Rxe=p2gHHN9U3Zjn34Y71-KTxk5v+WzG7V3VH0ZNGCzqSvA at mail.gmail.com> Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette ><rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote: >> In message <BLU0-SMTP145A44932CB6CC2DB4621568BB30 at phx.gbl>, >> Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > >>>I don't know why syslinux.cfg would be correctly found in the same >>>USB drive when plugged in to other systems but not in...

In message <52D90648.4010900 at mattiasschlenker.de>, Mattias Schlenker <ms at mattiasschlenker.de> wrote: >I would be personally interested in the following experiment: > > 1. Download this LessLinux test build: > http://download.lesslinux.org/testing/lesslinux-search-and-rescue/lesslinux >-search-and-rescue-uluru-20140107-193740.iso > 2. dd it to the 8GB thumb