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Only to inform that I've just released the version 1.2 of makebootfat. makebootfat is a GPL command line utility able to create bootable USB disks for Linux and Windows using the FAT filesystem and syslinux. As far I know it's the most advanced tool available able to make bootable USB disks. It's able to autodetect/partition/format/populate the USB disk in a single step without any

I'm trying to get Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server to install and run (boot) on a USB Flash Drive. The actual install process works without a problem and will complete without an error. It by default wants to install grub and place it on the MBR. Doing this completes the installation but my BIOS will not boot the USB disk. My partition table at this point looks like: /dev/sda1 - 8 GB - EXT4 (Ubuntu)

Hi, I'm working on making an USB flash disk bootable and have succeeded in booting Linux using syslinux from disk in USB-HDD mode. Is there a way to do it in USB-FDD mode, possibly also using syslinux as a bootloader? Thanks in advance. -- [ Adam Wysocki :: www.gophi.rotfl.pl :: +48889004440 ] [ Software Development Department, ArcaBit Sp. z o.o ] [ Ul. Fortuny 9 :: 01-339 Warszawa ::

Hi, I'm writing as I'm an happy user of syslinux/isolinux(pxelinux, as it has kade booting from floppy/hd/cd simple and reliable... (I've looked the tons of workaround developers had to develop to circumvent bugs BIOS bug in isolinux....) I think that next frontier for syslinux should be USB booting: it already works, but here also there are a lot of BIOS problem that a bootloader

Hi, i did not succeed to get my test computer (Asus A7V8X-X of 2004) to boot from an isohybrid image. I tried http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/RIPLinux-7.0-non-X.iso which is obviously isohybrid enabled. The system has a "Promise Ultra 133 TX2" IDE controller which supercedes the mainboard BIOS. To make the system react on the USB stick i set boot option

Mats, Thanks for your trial; following your mail I tried it with hda; it is the same, it does not work - "fdisk -l" does not show hda. Regards, Ian On 4/2/07, Petersson, Mats <Mats.Petersson@amd.com> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com > > [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Ian Brown

Hello syslinuxers I'm stuck with a scientific problem which gives me headaches: I have a laptop (Gateway MX3410) which has a SD memory card reader. Recently an interesting thought crossed my mind: why don't I setup a 2GB SD card as a harddrive and put some rescue tools on it. So I dug on the net and I came across the idea of using memdisk to boot floppy images without the need of a

I finally got around to testing the isohybrid, and it seemed to work in the creation, but in my lab, it sees the flash as a usb-fdd, and when I tried to boot from it, I just get a cursor in the top left. In linux it comes up as a cdrom. Is there a process for this, or is this a case of having to use another method. Some time ago, I had use syslinux to boot from a flash, but I had to set an

With the new 3.01 and 3.07 version I found a big slowdown booting from USB devices. On my PC it takes more than 2 minutes to load the kernel and the initrd filesystem. Compared with the previous behaviour of syslinux 2.13 with takes only 10 seconds or little more. The BIOS boots in FDD mode (DriveNumber variable is 0). I've also tried to disable the EDD support in the source. But the boot

Some people here have reported problems with USB keys. I have found one problem which doesn't boot USB keys formatted as hard disks, and wanted to relate what I've found. First of all, this is a BIOS bug. It's an Award BIOS; I can't get it to show any other version information. Second, even though the "system configuration" screen shows the USB key as a "hard

> > You will be happy to know that your test image _does_ appear to boot OK > on my GA-M55Plus-S3G, from either/both of my test sticks (4GB & 8GB). > > Whatever magic you did, it seems to have worked. (Please _don't_ go > into too much technical detail, but... in layman's terms... what did > you do?) > > Here is what I got after booting from the 8GB

I have been trying to boot a kernel I compiled. I tried 2 different USB thumb drives. I tried win32 syslinux 3.31 and 3.36 with no luck. I even tried another known good kernel for testing purposes. After syslinux starts I get "Invalid or corrupt kernel image" but I don't think it is even really trying to run it. The last time I built a kernel about 1-1/2 years ago you could put a

SYSLINUX 2.10 2004-06-18 That is all I get when I boot my system off a CompactFlash card in an IDE adapter, no matter how long I wait. What debugging steps are recommended? I'm willing to get down and dirty with assembler, and I'd appreciate suggestions of what to suspect and where to start. Details: This is a Crucial 128MB CompactFlash card in a non-hot-swap CF-IDE adapter which

> Hi, > > Ronald F. Guilmette: > > > Doesn't the Syslinux project provide (hopefully strong) specific > > > reccomendations, [...] > > hpa: > > We try (see our wiki), > > The general wiki > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk > says > "In order to create a bootable disk using SYSLINUX, prepare

I'm running into an issue which I didn't expect to encounter. When specifying the "nopassany" parameter to hide physical drives, I'm getting different output from ELTORITO.SYS (v1.5, syslinux distro) such that it fails. My intent is a LiveCD functionality with a DOS RAMDISK program taking over as drive C:, meaning either no FAT partitions on harddisks and removable disks

On 03/18/2017 01:18 AM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > Some of the things you should / could (re)test / (re)try: > > _ Verify the md5sum of the ISO image. SHA256 verified for downloaded image and for contents of USB flash drive (see below). > _ Is this particular USB device _still_ capable of booting newer > computers? Yes. > What happens if you would try _again_ to boot a

In other words: I'm suggesting to use WinImage as it also allows easy injection of new files *and* updating of already existing files. May I ask which vendor is distributing a DOS FW update that is 20MB? I'd like to see the files. Sometimes you just need the .bin/.rom and the actual FW update EXE and it would fit a 5MB FDD image. On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:03 PM, R S <rene.shuster at

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.

The narod.ru images are super outdated (FreeDOS kernel 2028) unfortunately. If you are interested I could provide a 5MB FDD image template based on FreeDOS 2041 kernel (the latest available at that time in 2014) where you would just inject your ROM and EXE (and possibly adjust autoexec.bat to autostart/apply the FW update). It's a minimal FreeDOS FDD image that defaults to a clean boot with

I am trying to install Centos on my old Portege 2490CT. Actually a pretty good box, but it does not support USB booting. Only HDD, FDD (interestingly a USB device), 'CD-Rom', or LAN. The only CDroms I have is a nice USB drive and an old PCMCIA toshiba NW24XCD drive. I have not gotten this system to boot off of my USB CDrom. It will boot of the NW24XCD. So I put the CentOS disk 1