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rename the VMlinuz*.* to file 'vmlinuz' (no quotes ofcourse). a bootfloppy leaves me enough diskspace, not 860KB. format as FAT12 (ofcourse), install Syslinux (I do this on Win2K with syslinux.exe A:, win9x: syslinux.com A:) my example: http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc4/fdboot.img unfortunately no Linux involved. If I could only show a Knoppix bootfloppy (but it's part of a

Hello Everyone, In short, I have the following questions: Is there a known problem with PXE booting and LinuxBIOS? Will pxelinux.0 not work with a serial console? Is there a way to convert pxelinux.0 into an ELF file? The Long Version: I am working on installing Rocks Cluter distribution on a LinuxNetworx cluster. The hardware was donated to my college, and the CS

Apologies for how that formatted. Also on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/EXSq75yX --Ian > From: ian at internals.io > To: ady-sf at hotmail.com; syslinux at zytor.com > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:09:09 -0500 > Subject: Re: [syslinux] Issues with syslinux_run_command(str) and parameters > > I don't think that's it, but fair enough, try this sample config: >

Hello, there is a "fdboot.img" floppy drive image included with FreeDOS ISO file. It's a floppy image file: root at debian64:~# file -s /home/martin/FreeDOS/isolinux/fdboot.img /home/martin/FreeDOS/isolinux/fdboot.img: x86 boot sector, FREE-DOS BEta 0.9 Bootloader KERNEL.SYS, code offset 0x40, OEM-ID "FreeDOS ", sectors/cluster 2, root entries 112, sectors 720 (volumes

When it accesses a real floppy disk, it seems to do Hung when the boot disk of MS-DOS (Win95/98/Me) was able to be started by using ISOLinux. example) Not inserted Floppydisk A>dir b: error message A/R/F ? A> inserted Floppydisk A>dir b: ....hung.... It seems to do Hung in Real PC though the phenomenon like place tested with VMware was not Hung. There was no problem in a usual

I don't think that's it, but fair enough, try this sample config: ************************************************# Test File: isolinux.cfg default vesamenu.c32 ALLOWOPTIONS 0 LABEL Test kernel whichsys.c32 append -iso- memdisk initrd=fdboot.img -sys- initrd=fdboot.img MENU END************************************************ I am using binaries from 6.03-pre11 from kernel.org. I used

Hi, I am compiling a tiny linux kernel 2.6.10 to be used together with linuxbios. The boot phase will go as follows: linuxbios->tiny linux kernel->initramfs The initramfs shall use dhcp to get it's address and then tftp a full featured kernel. This kernel must be started through kexec. I use a tweaked networkdriver in the kernel and cannot use a normal PXE boot. Which files should I

I tend to use the same tool-chain across various hosts so I made this very simple patch that allows you to pass the cross-compiler name to make ( e.g. make CROSS_COMPILE=i686-nptl-linux-gnu-). I'm not sure if patches should be attached or just pasted inline so I did both this time. BTW, it's relative to syslinux 4 but the same changes work with syslinux 3 although the patch won't

>that image under B: or X: or whatever. This will allow us to cross the >size limit of 2.88MB floppies. Ofcourse when I say "mount" I dont expect >memdisk to mount it, just that set things up so that DOS mounts it there. I'm using a 5MB image which emulates floppydisk. label test kernel data/memdisk append initrd=data2/test.img c=80 h=8 s=18 floppy problems are

hm, nice algorythm thingie. I'm not a programmer, so here goes: currently: F1 helpfile.txt probably results in DISPLAY helpfile.txt perhaps extend this option: F1 arg1 arg2 arg3 argX if arg1 does not exist, abort (currently also done?) if arg1 ends in COM extension, execute it and pass the optional arg2/3/X parameters if arg1 ends in C32 extension, same thing. else DISPLAY arg1 // arg1

Try the following and let us know. If it doesn't work, we'll try other alternatives. *** DEFAULT vesamenu.c32 ALLOWOPTIONS 0 LABEL test COM32 whichsys.c32 APPEND -iso- iso -sys- sys LABEL iso LINUX memdisk APPEND initrd=fdboot.img LABEL sys LINUX memdisk APPEND initrd=fdboot.img *** Regards, Ady.

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

This adds checks for Watcom C DOS cross-compiler in a manner analogous to mingw compiler for Windows. The compiler is not commonly present in Linux distributions due to a non-free license. Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk> --- dosutil/Makefile | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/dosutil/Makefile b/dosutil/Makefile index 9dc88d1..69fc58a 100644 ---

This is an attempt to avoid potential confusion. Here are some example sizes for the two Syslinux versions mentioned in the e-mail subject. Your build results might be different. 4.06: 1 55 Sep 22 22:23 modules/int18.com 1 108 Nov 1 18:07 version.mk 1 138 Nov 1 18:07 version.gen 1 138 Nov 1 18:07 version.h 1 239 Sep 22 22:23 modules/poweroff.com 1 408 Sep 22 22:25

I did confirm earlier that this does work, and combined with a MENU HIDDEN to hide it from the visible menu it is a possible solution. I originally assumed that this was due to that going down a different code path and did not mention it, apologies. The scale of my menu makes doubling/tripling menu entries less ideal, though. Do we consider it intended functionality that modules such as whichsys

Ok, syslinux is what it is, and I love the way it just works. I looked up linuxBios and found what I was looking for. A project in 2000 called "LOBOS (Linux OS Boots Linux OS): Booting a Kernel in 32-bit Mode? It looks like this would do what I need, but I can't find any working code. I like the Idea of booting a simple fail safe system and restarting a production kernel. Yes,

Posting video cards usually require running x86 ROMs. This doesn't work to well when people plug x86 video cards into ia64 and ppc machines. People do this because the x86 versions are half the price of the OpenFirmware ones. Even x86 machines need to run the ROMs for secondary cards. I'm in the process of modifying fbdev to use hotplug events to run these ROMs. What about including emu86

a member of the FreeDOS project has transformed Smart Boot Manager into a COM32 module for Syslinux. Might be a bit more usefull than Syslinux -> memdisk -> imagefile -> Smart Boot Manager ( -> 'boot from cd -> cdrom ) I've inserted it into this diskette image: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/beta9sr1/fdos1440.img That's nice to

Hi, well, I was finally able to build syslinux-5.11-pre8 from git, but the system doesn't boot with the self-compiled version. All I see is: http://666kb.com/i/cfplluqpcy6owptq3.jpg Build log can be found in http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-July/020452.html After I installed the self-compiled syslinux version, I run this commands: # cd /boot/extlinux # rm -rf *.c32 # extlinux

MEMDISK included in the freshly released Syslinux v3.10 is unfortunately broken. v3.09 works properly. Scenario: Isolinux --> MEMDISK --> FDBOOT.IMG (FreeDOS 360KB diskette image). Then try to access drive B: , which normally is your first diskette drive with driveletter A:. However, in this case MEMDISK occupies A:, and real diskdrive becomes B: Bug: when accessing B:, you're asked