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Felix von Leitner told me: > The [zip disk] security can be circumvented by putting a read-write > disk in the drive, then using a needle to do the eject and inserting > the read-only disk. Done. > AFAIK there hasn''t been a published way to hack the protection in > software, but I see no reason to trust them. Regards, Roger. -- If it''s there and you can

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The autodetection routines for some linux modules can tie up the machine for several seconds at a time. By trying to open devices not present on the machine, a local user can disrupt service considerably. A very simple exploit is victim$ ls /dev/*/* repeatedly. A suggested fix is to remove or chmod 0 device nodes for hardware not installed on the

...32 installers only) --force -f Ignore precautions (DOS/Win32/mtools installers only) Note: geometry is determined at boot time for devices which are considered hard disks by the BIOS. Unfortunately, this is not possible for devices which are considered floppy disks, which includes zipdisks and LS-120 superfloppies. The -z option is useful for USB devices which are considered hard disks by some BIOSes and zipdrives by other BIOSes. $ ./syslinux-git/working-directory/linux/syslinux Usage: ../syslinux-git/working-directory/linux/syslinux [options] device --offset -t Offset...

Some people have reported portability problems with SYSLINUX 3.00, mostly due to the use of HDIO_GETGEO_BIG, which is deprecated; additionally, the advanced menu system wouldn't build for everyone due to a spurious reference to %ebp. This release fixes these things, plus makes the extlinux installer default to zipdisk geometry (64 heads, 32 sectors) if it can't guess anything else.

On 01/21/2014 11:13 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > My current theory is that vendors prefer to record > a cylinder aligned end CHS address over recording > an end CHS address which exploits the whole capacity. > This is used as an (inofficial ?) protocol to publish > the CHS factors H' and S'. > Indeed it is -- at least some BIOSes "deduce" the H/S to use

I am trying to boot Linux from a USB memory device containing an ext2 file system using extlinux and having a bit of trouble. Apologies for any naiive questions and assumptions. The USB device is an 8M byte Compact Flash card in a USB reader. I used fdisk to create a single partition across the whole of the device (partition 4 - is that important?) and made it bootable. Fdsik reported the

Hello HPA, I think on harddisks, Syslinux is going to lose somehow from other bootloaders like LILO, Grub and others. However, SYSLINUX is still VERY usefull for removable media like diskettes, Zipdisks, USB Flash keys, etc.. I don't know if the fact that Syslinux is now installed using blockmapping is really breaking the usefullness for harddisks. You already mentioned system attribute will protect from defragmentation tools, but how about disksizes? Isolinux and PXElinux will remain unrepl...

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utils/mkdiskimage.in: With option -s: Avoid zeroizing the partition even if truncate() failed. --- utils/mkdiskimage_patched_01.in 2014-01-30 20:43:02.000000000 +0100 +++ utils/mkdiskimage.in 2014-01-30 20:45:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -217,8 +217,11 @@ print OUTPUT "\x55\xaa"; $totalsize = $c*$h*$s; $tracks = $c*$h; -# If -s is given, try to simply use truncate... -unless

...e pacifier messages. --- utils/mkdiskimage_patched_03.in 2014-01-30 20:54:27.000000000 +0100 +++ utils/mkdiskimage.in 2014-01-30 20:59:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ if ( $file eq '' || $c < 1 || $h < 1 || print STDERR " -4 use partition entry 4 (standard for zipdisks)\n"; print STDERR " -i specify the MBR ID\n"; print STDERR " -s output a sparse file (don't allocate all blocks)\n"; + print STDERR " -S sync after each zeroized cylinder and show count\n"; exit 1; } @@ -218,12 +219,24 @@...

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

--- utils/mkdiskimage.in | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/utils/mkdiskimage.in b/utils/mkdiskimage.in index 533193a..a95a077 100644 --- a/utils/mkdiskimage.in +++ b/utils/mkdiskimage.in @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ $totalsize = $c*$h*$s; $tracks = $c*$h; # If -s is given, try to simply use truncate... -unless ($opt{'s'} && truncate(OUTPUT,

...n/($h*$s); + $zero_tail = ($len - $c * $h * $s); } if ( $file eq '' || $c < 1 || $h < 1 || $h > 256 || $s < 1 || $s > 63 ) { @@ -145,6 +143,7 @@ if ( $file eq '' || $c < 1 || $h < 1 || print STDERR " -4 use partition entry 4 (standard for zipdisks)\n"; print STDERR " -i specify the MBR ID\n"; print STDERR " -s output a sparse file (don't allocate all blocks)\n"; + print STDERR " -S sync after each zeroized cylinder and show count\n"; exit 1; } @@ -217,16 +216,41 @@...

...-------------------------------------- --- mkdiskimage.in 2014-01-23 12:23:34.000000000 +0100 +++ mkdiskimage_ts.in 2014-01-23 17:00:59.000000000 +0100 @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ if ( $file eq '' || $c < 1 || $h < 1 || print STDERR " -4 use partition entry 4 (standard for zipdisks)\n"; print STDERR " -i specify the MBR ID\n"; print STDERR " -s output a sparse file (don't allocate all blocks)\n"; + print STDERR " -S sync after each zeroized cylinder and show count\n"; exit 1; } @@ -221,12 +222,23 @@...

I just released Syslinux 4.00-pre40. This is now a Release Candidate, meaning that it is on track to be released as it currently is unless I hear back about currently unexpected problems. If you have a chance, please pretty please test it. -hpa

Hello Peter & Jeremy, I've found an ordinary desktop PC (with Phoenix Award BIOS 6.00PG) that won't boot off a USB stick created by livecd-tools-024 with syslinux (tested both versions 3.75 and 3.81). The boot process drops to the "boot:" prompt with an error message: could not find kernel image: linux The same USB stick boots fine on any other computer I could find.