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...=-=- My working & booting syslinux 3.80 setup, pre altmbr: MBR: from syslinux 3.80 ldlinux.sys: from syslinux 3.80 hda1 - 24G - [0c] - FAT32 - WinXP (Encrypted via TrueCrypt) hda2 - 53G - [0f] - Extended hda5 - 0.5G - [06] - [boot] FAT16, boots syslinux menu hda6+ --- Various_Other_Partitions, none with [boot] active --- AltMBR Purpose: I want to employ the altmbr to have hda5 always be the boot partition that syslinux loads from, in a setup where hda5 will *not* have the boot flag set, but hda1 *will*. So to test altmbr I: - boot into linux and do: dd if=altmbr.bin of=/dev/hda bs=1...

...esting/syslinux-3.81-pre13.zip Background: I started with a 'normal' multi-OS boot setup as follows: MBR - syslinux hda1 - 24G - [0c] - FAT32 - WinXP (Encrypted via TrueCrypt) hda2 - 53G - [0f] - Extended hda5 - 0.5G - [06] - [boot] FAT16, boots syslinux menu hda6+ --- Various_Other_Partitions, none with [boot] active --- All was booting & working fine but I wanted to encrypt the WinXP boot partition (hda1) with TC. Doing so would entail: - TC replacing the MBR boot code with its own boot loader - TC filling in some sectors immediately following the boot (MBR) sector with TC'...