similar to: Isolinux booting to /root on USB Drive

Hello, David Following the link below, you wrote: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/003639.html [syslinux] Isolinux booting to /root on USB Drive David Forslund forslund at mail.com <mailto:syslinux%40zytor.com?Subject=%5Bsyslinux%5D%20Isolinux%20booting%20to%20/root%20on%20USB%20Drive&In-Reply-To=> Sun Jun 13 00:11:10 PDT 2004 * Previous message: [syslinux]

David Christensen wrote: > This is how I prepared an ADATA USB Flash Drive 4 GB: ... install-mbr /dev/sdb ... [Rest of very clear description snipped.] What's that? That desn't exist in the Debian I'm running. Otherwise you gave a very good description of what you're doing. >From another message: > Please provide a URL for documentation that explains how to build a >

> 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? >

Hi, David Christensen wrote: > I use this USB flash drive for bootable installer images; I do not > attempt to mount it. I don't know that I could, even if I wanted to: mkdir /mnt/iso mount /dev/sdc /mnt/iso or, because partition 1 starts at block 0, you may mount it too mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/iso > # fdisk -l /dev/sdc > WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on

Hi, Ady wrote: > In the last few years, ISOLINUX has received very low attention, both > upstream and downstream. Nevertheless the well established Linux distros use it for their ISOs. Most have adopted mjg's isohybrid --uefi layout. Only SuSE does it different. So for me with my xorriso hat on, ISOLINUX is as an important partner as is GRUB. > So I' am about to (attempt to)

> On 03/18/2017 04:15 PM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > > > >> On 03/18/2017 01:18 AM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > >>> _ With the USB device connected to (one of) the problematic > >>> computer(s), power up the system and get into the BIOS setup. In > >>> the BIOS setup screen(s), change the boot order in such way that > >>> the

Hello, I have downloaded and burned Suse 9.2 Live CD. The problem is, it won't boot. I get "searching for boot record on CDROM... not found" message and then system just boots from hard drive. Other bootable cdroms work, it's just suse that doesn't. I post this here because suse live cd uses isolinux (isolinux.cfg below). Is there a way to make the cd boot, maybe using

On 03/19/2017 11:28 PM, David Christensen via Syslinux wrote: > I will try to do an install later, and will report the result. Booting the USB flash drive I prepared, the Debian installer runs: Select a language English Select your location United States Configure the keyboard American English Detect and mount CD-ROM Incorrect CD-ROM detected The CD-ROM drive contains a CD which

Ady Ady wrote: > either I would simply use optical media, or I would be partitioning and > formatting the USB device (these are _not_ complete detailed > instructions): > > _ MBR (aka "msdos" partition) scheme > _ create one partition > _ set the partition as "bootable" (aka "active" flag) > _ dd mbr.bin > _ mount the partition; format it

On 03/19/2017 08:30 PM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > That's because your syslinux.cfg is "wrong", but the behavior just > proves that SYSLINUX is indeed booting. > > # ***syslinux.cfg*** > DEFAULT mylabel > LABEL mylabel > LINUX vmlinuz > APPEND initrd=initrd.gz > # ****************** The USB flash drive boots the Debian installer in the old PC! > So

On 03/19/2017 09:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg via Syslinux wrote: > David Christensen wrote: >> This is how I prepared an ADATA USB Flash Drive 4 GB: > ... > install-mbr /dev/sdb > ... > [Rest of very clear description snipped.] > > What's that? That desn't exist in the Debian I'm running. > Otherwise you gave a very good description of what you're doing.

I am trying to install Debian Linux on an an old Intel Classic R+ computer that uses an internal Yamaha SCSI CD writer model CRW8424S connected to an Adaptec ISA SCSI card (I think its a 1542CP). The CD writer is is the only device connected to the SCSI card. The computer has one hard drive connected to the on-board IDE interface, a 1.44MB 3 1/2 inch floppy and a 1.2MB 5 1/4 inch floppy. The hard

Hi, David Christensen wrote: > The USB flash drive boots the Debian installer in the old PC! Congrats. > There is no syslinux.cfg on debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso: The configuration is named /isolinux/isolinux.cfg. Looks like it is surrounded by a little empire of .cfg files: /isolinux/adgtk.cfg /isolinux/adtxt.cfg /isolinux/exithelp.cfg /isolinux/gtk.cfg

H. Peter, I came across the first system where isolinux failed to load: ======================================================= Isolinux 1.63 2001-8-6 Copyright ... isolinux: Starting up, DL = F0 isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = F0 isolinux: Sector size appears to be 0800 isolinux: Loading main image from LBA, 0003F25D isolinux: Sectors to load = 0004

> On 03/19/2017 04:03 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > [ 0.600883] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount > > root fs on unkonwn-block(0,0) > > Similar kernel panic when booted on Intel DQ67SW i7-2600S. > > > David > That's because your syslinux.cfg is "wrong", but the behavior just proves that SYSLINUX is indeed

Peter, Thank you for isolinux. What a relief to be rid of floppy images! ISOLINUX works great except in one puzzling instance. I recently upgraded my system with a Promise Ultra 133 (PDC20269) controller. In order to boot from either the hard drive or CDROM drive connected to this controller I set the boot device in the motherboard BIOS to SCSI. Everything seemingly works great. Until we get

Hi, Ady wrote: > We seem to be suggesting to just dd' the first 432 bytes of their USB > devices with Martin's isohybrid Yes. As long as it is not about the old Macs which the APM of Fedora and some Gentoo ISOs wants to make boot, and not about ISOs made with isohybrid options --partok -ctrlhd0 --forcehd0. > which would be the step-by-step instructions for users of other >

Hi, David Christensen wrote: > I see the source code for the error message: > .ascii "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt.\r\n" The riddle is why the MBR code does not get to see the expected bytes. > Figuring out why debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso works on CD, but doesn't > work on USB, The immediate reason is that from CD the program isolinux.bin is loaded

Hi Mr Anvin, after downloading the Freedos bootable cd, which now uses your projects (ISOLINUX & MEMDISK) instead of Bart Lagerweij's DISKEMU (www.nu2.nu), I contacted the creator of the freedos cdrom. I was interested in how he did make that cd bootable. Now I understand it a bit. As I'm a MS Windows user, I had to figure some things out. However, upon booting I get a beautiful

isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected Yoper 2.1 --------- ISOLINUX 2.11 2004-08-16 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it... isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive = 9F isolinux: Disk error 01, AX = 4209, drive 9F Boot failed: press a key to retry... Helix 1.5 --------- ISOLINUX 2.04 (Debian, 2003-06-06) isolinux: Loading spec packet failed,