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I am working on a Linux-based boot disk for my project (http://unattended.sourceforge.net/), and I have hit a snag. Under Linux 2.6, the kernel (via HDIO_GETGEO) always reports the C/H/S geometry of an IDE drive as X/16/63. But most BIOSes want to use the geometry Y/255/63. Most partitioning tools (including Parted) will take clues from an existing partition table and adapt to the BIOS values.

> You might want to read Wikipedia's articles about "FAT32" and "Design of the FAT file system", Good pointer. I spent far far too long on that page figuring out how fat32 is designed. But the reserved sectors, there is the key. > reserved sectors Right! Immediately after the FSIS before the FAT.And it usually is 32 sectors for fat32. Take off the VBR and the FSIS,

HPA, I believe that support to boot windows CD bootsectors was broken in 3.05. I have tested 2.13, 3.00, 3.02, 3.05, 3.06, 3.08, 3.11, and 3.20pre6. All versions >= 3.05 are broken. All versions <= 3.02 work fine with the same config. The error message I get is: ================================================================ IOSLINUX 3.20 3.20-pre6 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin

> > > Is the build process documented? Or am I just going to have to plod > through > > the makefiles? > > I don't think so. > Oh well... > > 1. Run installer > > 2. Installer loads ldlinux.sys onto the filesystem (and copies > ldlinux.c32, > > but irrelevant for now). > > 3. Installer calculates which blocks in the filesystem contain

Create a virtual FAT-formatted floppy disk from a directory of files. For example: nbdkit floppy /path/to/directory The implementation of this is quite different from nbdkit-iso-plugin since we cannot use an external program. Instead this plugin synthesizes the MBR partition and FAT32 structures that are required. To do: Implement bootable virtual floppy using syslinux. This is not

Hi... I decided to delete my fat32 partition (sda1, with win2k on it). I did that with fdisk and added a linux partition, then formated it with "mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1" ... Everything seemed to work fine... I can even mount it with "mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt" ... but there seem to be some fat32 rubbish left because when I do "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" it seems to

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Avi Deitcher <avi at deitcher.net> wrote: >> > Is the build process documented? Or am I just going to have to plod >> > through >> > the makefiles? >> >> I don't think so. > Oh well... >> > 1. Run installer >> > 2. Installer loads ldlinux.sys onto the filesystem (and copies >> >

> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen > <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no> wrote: > > Just a short update on this machine (Acer Aspire X1470) and the GPT / UEFI situation. > > Today I set up another partition, EFI system partition. The partyitions now looks like this: > > root@kg-vm2# gpart show ada0 > > => 34 250069613 ada0 GPT (119G)

> You are thinking GRUB-like, among (too) many others. Heh, at least I am in good company. > A "sector" is not necessarily 512-bytes long. Fair enough, e.g. Advanced Format 4k sector disks. > The VBR, or Volume Boot Record, is not necessarily 512-bytes long. > Also, the VBR doesn't need to be restricted to the first sector of the volume alone. The "Design"

Add nbdkit-floppy-plugin, “inspired” by qemu's VVFAT driver, but without the ability to handle writes. The implementation is pretty complete, supporting FAT32, LFNs, volume labels, timestamps, etc, and it passes both ‘make check’ and ‘make check-valgrind’. Usage is simple; to serve the current directory: $ nbdkit floppy . Then using guestfish (or any NBD client): $ guestfish --ro

Gene, thanks for doing "Reply-All". I only get digest, so this keeps me in the loop. Appreciated. > which appears to be included in diskstart.inc. I will have to dig in and > see > > how this all gets compiled (pointers always appreciated :-) ). > > Yes. > Is the build process documented? Or am I just going to have to plod through the makefiles? > As Ady said,

Paths in grub.conf are relative to the filesystem containing it. grub parsing currently assumes that it is on /boot, and will fail if it isn't, for example because a guest only has a single partition. This patch makes grub parsing work harder to work out what grub paths are relative to. Firstly, it looks for a previous detected 'linux-grub' filesystem. If this isn't found, it

Is there a list of programs that are supported by Wine? I am especially interested in running TurboTax. Thanks!

Hi all, I have merged Tim's patches to the mboot loader, and have pushed it out as 3.20-pre7. I guess I'm going to actually have to make a 3.20 here soon... -hpa

hello, i have this problem : [y.moya@yves y.moya]$ cd /mnt/cdrom [y.moya@yves cdrom]$ ls 3Dfx SETUP.EXE _setup.dll autorun.pak hlinst.dll setup.bmp DATA.TAG SETUP.INI _sys1.cab data1.cab lang.dat setup.ins DIRECTX Worldcraft _user1.cab dsetup.dll layout.bin setup.lid Localize.cab _INST32I.EX_ autorun.exe dsetup16.dll os.dat sierra.inf

Greetings from a noob. I am having a little difficulty trying out Wine-20050111 on a fully updated athlon fedora core 2 system and hope other wine users can help. Review of the wine-users.pdf file included in the wine rpm and scanning some of the wine-users mailing list archives have not pointed to any solutions. I am trying to install Turbotax from a Turbtax distribution CD. (The only

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Milhollan" <mlm at pixelgate.net> To: "Jeff Boyce" <jboyce at meridianenv.com> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 7:18 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 install software Raid on large drives error > On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Jeff Boyce wrote: > >>I am trying to install CentOS 7 into a new Dell Precision 3610. I have

With windows, if your "virtual" floppy is drive B:, then windows will treat it specially. It will basically copy the contents into memory from real mode using int13h, knowing that it will not be able to access the device after it switches to protected mode. I asked a few days ago about support for making a memdisk image behave as drive B:, but got no answer. :-( We have our

Hello, We are having performance problems trying to migrate our pop/imap servers to a new version. Our old servers are 4 debian lenny with 5GB of RAM running of XenServer VMs with kernel 2.6.32-4-amd64 and dovecot 1.1.16. New servers are 4 ubuntu 12.04 with dovecot 2.1.5 running on vmware vm with 6 cores and 16GB of RAM and kernel 3.2.0-24-generic. On both server we are using nfs 3 with

As I said before, booting is bigger than one bootloader. I am replying to what I think was asked. I might have misunderstood the questions. Whichever the case, this email is less about Syslinux itself. If this is considered too far off-topic in the Syslinux Mailing List, please receive my apologies. > > I still have the factory-set contents of my three USB sticks. A small