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Hello, many of our platforms do not have a integrated floppy, some even don''t have a floppy controller. As pxelinux still has a problem with machines without a floppy in combination with some bios versions I need to chainload a different bootstrap loader which works on the floppyless platforms. But I also need to load a BartPE and the other BS loader does not support that. So I tried to

The narod.ru images are super outdated (FreeDOS kernel 2028) unfortunately.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

Hi, I'm Florent BERANGER, from Flonix ( http://www.flonix.com ). After several tests, we have found that Syslinux 3.00 pre9 is no longer compatible with USB stick booting. Syslinux 2.13 works fine with this feature. Error infos : Syslinux 3.00 pre9 only displays its version and a new line with a "a" character and then hangs. Tests configuration : Syslinux applied from : Linux

I'm playing with syslinux 3.0x to get PC to boot from USB key... In particular, I'm giving a look at the "ZIP geometry hack" to get some more BIOS boot working with USB... Some question: - if we have a usbkey with a single partition, can we change the geometry without requiring to reformat the partition? Or is a reformat unavoidable? - at the moment we can use the "ZIP

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.

Let's try to get this thing released. Dag: will you do your RPM buildathon on this drop? Changes in 3.74: * New UI directive, which allows a more natural way to specify a menu system (or not.) With the UI directive specifying the menu system, the DEFAULT directive can be used to select the default entry inside the menus. * kbdmap.c32: new module

Hello, are there known issues with some bioses not booting from Superfloppy format? All I get is the Syslinux (c) line and nothing else happens afterwords. Everything works fine if a partition is added to the device. Unfortunately however the target device can not be partitioned. Any hint? Sven -- Why are there so many Unix-haters-handbooks and not even one Microsoft-Windows-haters

I have released SYSLINUX 2.10-pre2. I *really* would like testing reports for this one, especially ISOLINUX, since I've included Knut Petersen's fix for Award BIOSes... Changes in 2.10: * MEMDISK: Handle images compressed with zip as well as with gzip. Some Windows-based image tools apparently generate these kinds of images by default. Patch by Patrick

From 43e0635d7d90f65055d1f49d998974041315f4fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shao Miller <shao.miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:26:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] memdisk: Fix "might be used uninitialized" warnings The checksum_buf function was providing an incorrect checksum on at least one build. Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca>

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, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > what exactly did we determine that GA-M55Plus-S3G is failing > to support? It appears to be related to the choice of CHS addressing with the FAT filesystem. This opens the door for misperceived factors of heads per cylinder and sectors per heads. My current suspicion is that the partition end did not expose the effective factors in its end CHS address, so

I recently moved my CentOS 4.5 disk from a Lenovo ThinkCentre M52 (3.2 GHz Pentium 4) to a Lenovo ThinkCentre M55 (3.4 GHz Core 2 Duo). I had to install the SMP kernel, but other than that everything just worked. I did have an issue with accidentally initializing my /boot partition, but that was my own fault. But the system was not feeling right. Some things just seemed to be slower,

Hi, I would like to boot a LINUX system from an external USB Hard Drive. Motherboard (ASUS P4P800) supports boot from USB with or without floppy emulation. Is it possible to use syslinux for booting without any floppy or CD, just from the external USB drive? Regards... Bela

Dear Syslinux folks, For a firmware update I am following the Gentoo Wiki [1] to create a floppy image of 20 MB, so that the vendor update utility fits. Unfortunately, FreeDOS does not load, and it seems to hang loading the FreeDOS kernel. The original FreeDOS image boots. Do you know if that issue is memdisk related? It?s started from GRUB with the commands below. linux16 /boot/memdisk

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

Hello, I don't know if it's ISOLINUX or a broken BIOS, this is the first time ever seeing this error. "Extremely broken BIOS" on a EPIA -M10 BIOS Rev 2.07 (latest ver available) EDEN VIA mini-ITX mobo. ISOLINUX on RH8 ver 1.75, RH9 ver 2.00 and Yarrow ver 2.06 all produce the same type of error. RH 7.3 and Lindows boot and build without any problem but I don't think they

In message <52D97530.5040706 at zytor.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: >On 01/09/2014 03:35 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> >> SYSLINUX 5.10 2013-06-04 ... >> >> Failed to load ldlinux.c32 >> Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue. >> >> In the case of the Ultimate Boot CD, the

I've recently purchased an SSD with the goal of having a portable MS-Windows installation, something which Windows 8's "Windows to Go" feature allows (install to, and boot/run from, USB flash device). Housing the SSD in an external Zalman VE300 case allows presenting ISO files as hardware CD/DVD/BD drive with inserted medium. Having the ISO files present, it's tempting

2018-06-26 2:10 GMT+08:00 H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com>: > On 06/18/18 13:06, R S via Syslinux wrote: >> 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 >>

Hello List, I have used isolinux for years without problems. Recently I decided to upgrade from 3.09 to 3.11. Every CD I create can be read on my Vectra (Pentium 3) and all other Pentium 3 boxes, but all my Pentium 4 boxes will not boot (they ignore the CD and boot from hard disk). The bochs VM will boot the CDs fine just like the Pentium 3 machines. I have tried 3.09 (which worked