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Out of necessity, a friend of mine and I have created a patch for syslinux to allow it to modify the mbr and partition table in windows. It adds a -m option to syslinux. If given, it will overwrite the MBR of the drive specified with the mbr.bin provided in syslinux, and if the bootable flag is not set on the partition being syslinuxed, it will set it. This was done to distribute with my USB

Le 24/03/2015 08:34, John R Pierce a ?crit : > I'd be looking at something like TinyLinux or DamnSmallLinux on those. I don't want anything else than CentOS for the job. I used to install my own heavily customized version of Slackware on these machines (http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/), but this was a bit of a hassle to maintain. CentOS 5.x is running perfectly well on these

Dear all, I wanna create a GNU/Linux that it boots from USB. I don't any idea on that. Can you introduce me a doc that i can use it & i can solve my problem? Cheers, -- ------------------------- Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh email address : mohsen at pahlevanzadeh.org web site : http://pahlevanzadeh.org IRC IM : m_pahlevanzadeh yahoo IM : linuxorbsd ----------------------------

Installing Damn Small Linux and R Following my experiences with Knoppix (described in another mail) I did similar test on Damn Small Linux (dsl -http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ ). DSL was interesting, because it is the smallest yet fully functional version of Linux, hence more suited to older and smaller computers than Knoppix. Importantly, it uses lightweight windowing system (no KDE or GNOME) so

Got to minimize (barely) my filesystem and kernel and fit it into my usb key (256mb) My kernel was compiles with scsi and usb support built-in. My problem now is i can't mount my root filesystem when i tried to boot. kernel somehow takes time before being able to recognize my usb as a valid scsi device thus displaying VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01 this is my lilo.conf boot=/dev/sda

Hi there, I try to boot from an USB Pen-Drive. This works fine on my Laptop, but when I try to change to the target machine it almost takes five minutes until the initrd (fairly big, 18MB) has been loaded. Any hints on how I could try to increase speed? The Bios has already been updatet to the most recent Version. Sven -- "Das ist halt der Unterschied: Unix ist ein Betriebssystem mit

I am trying to use Syslinux as my boot loader for a stripped down version of Knoppix (DSL) on a USB Pen Drive. I followed the instructions verbatim on http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/knoppix-usb.html, but no luck. The system will start to boot to the USB, but gives a Kernel Panic. I will give all information that shows on the screen. After I select Boot from USB (which on my

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 USB device is recognized as first

Hi, I often have to deal with relatively obsolete hardware in schools, public libraries, small town halls, etc. I still have a handful of CentOS 5.x installations around for these, but I wonder what CentOS 6.x desktop specs are, e. g. the minimum requirements (in terms of CPU and RAM) to reasonably run it. Will a battered first-generation P-IV with 512 MB RAM be sufficient? How much RAM does

> 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

is it possible with syslinux? (I can't figure out the .cfg parameters to do it...) thx peter

Hi! I have a PXE Server witch uses a the simple menu system. Is all working great also with submenus. What i want is a entry in the pxelinux.cfg/default file that can load a non-menu cfg file for the pxelinux.0. The background is, that i have here a DamnSmallLinux that is booting from PXE. it has a own cfg file but without the simple menu system (with F1-F2-F3 and a logo.16). If i move

Hi, The bios is not able to boot from usb, but only from floppy. I want to boot an Ubuntu-installation from usb. The iso-file was moved with usb-creator to the usb-stick. I have got a boot-floppy, which starts an DamnSmallLinux usb-stick. But this bootfloppy doesn't start the Ubuntu-usb-stick. Which parameters in syslinux.cfg I must change to start Ubuntu-Linux? There are the following

Hi Friends, I have an Excalibur 4GB USB Pen Drive Model Number EXC4. I think it is getting detected by the Centos but I am not sure about the mount point or the device point it is taking /dev/s?? Logs from /var/log/messages. Mar 11 11:30:06 l_l_box kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3 Mar 11 11:30:22 l_l_box kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using address 4 Mar 11 11:30:22

I am attempting to install Gentoo on my cdless machine using the thumbdrive as a boot device. The motherboard is an Intel D815EEA, and is the latest firmware revision (at least on the BIOS). I believe I have done everything right, but it tells me I have unknown keywords in my syslinux.cfg and corrupt kernel images. The steps I have followed are thus: 1) Starting with a 4GB flash device,

Thomas Schmitt wrote: > (I could need a reference document for the assembler language in isohdpfx.S. > Does anybody know a good one ?) "info gas", in particular you want to read the chapter named "i386-Dependent". Then you'd want the x86 manuals from amd or intel for the instructions themselves but they are documented backwards. -- MartinS

Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Now looking deeply impressed at the 4600+ pages pile of > > https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/39/c5/325462-sdm-vol-1-2abcd-3abcd.pdf ... > It seems that at page 571 begins the reference of instructions. Up to > page 1120. Ouch. Ah, it mostly just rubbish since they "invented" MMX/SSE*/AVX. Just long sequences of almost

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

David Christensen wrote: > It looks like the call to "error" (line 276) is made if a summation of > the bytes in the first four sectors of a partition don't add up to > HYBRID_MAGIC (?). HYBRID_MAGIC = 0x7078c0fb isolinux_hybrid_signature = 0x7c00+64 ... cmpl $HYBRID_MAGIC,(isolinux_hybrid_signature) jne bad_signature ... bad_signature: call error .ascii

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