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anybody knows how to make a certain linux distro small? Ma. Kharisma V. Esguerra System Engineer I Epson Precision (Philippines), Inc. - Cebu Office Module 7A, e-Office, Asiatown I.T. Park, Apas, Cebu City, 6000 Philippines Tel. Nos. (+63 32) 412-7511 to 13 Fax No. (+63 32) 412-7514

Im trying to get syslinux to let me boot feather linux from my USB drive. But I don't understand what im being asked to do in the instructions. I need help, thank you. Ricky

Thanks for the comment. The next pass for a file format ... ------ FILE BEGINS ----- # Comment lines [menu] item="text to display" status="status line text" action= SUBMENU | INACTIVE | whatever submenu= <number> data="arbitrary string" item="text to display" status="status line text" action= SUBMENU | INACTIVE | RUN | EXIT submenu=

Okay, I'm going to ask the gajillion-dollar question... I've been doing syslinux for 11 years now. From a very limited scope it has since grown and is now a very advanced boot loader. Unfortunately, it's not clear to me anymore to what extent the work I'm doing is useful. I personally dislike grub because of its monolithic design, and because the grub people have

Hi, I am looking for a solution to boot MY system on any PC. To store most of the system and all of my data I want to use an USB storage (in my case an external USB harddisk (2.0 capable)). Since booting off an USB device is not an universal thing I would prefer to have a boot disk with a minimal system - just enough to load most (all?) of the system from the attached USB device. Is this an

Hi folks, I've got a problem with COMBoot (16 bit) in SYSLINUX 2.06: while the write string call (ax=2, int 22h) works just fine, the open file call (ax=6, int 22h) does nothing at all. Calling that function doesn't modify any register, and doesn't modify the carry flag. I then modified comapi_open in comboot.inc so it sets ax to some value and recompiled SYSLINUX, reinstalled it

Hi folks, I'm the creator and maintainer of a small "embedded" Linux distribution. We're currently developing a VPN solution and using SYSLINUX for booting. And yes, we'll play fair and provide all sources/patches to GPL'ed software when our product gets released :-) Anyway, while creating our product I had the idea of using disk-images to speed up the

Hi, I'm currently trying to build up a booting usbstick. works fine with syslinux. However I have some troubles putting my own kernel image (bzImage) instead of that of a distribution (i.e. already compiled). The only difference I noticed is that the "pre-compiled" kernel is about 1.4M big whereas mine 1.5M. The Syslinux Homepage confirm that "this version [...] can now handle

hi, i am wondering about how submission of append parameters can be done. i have the following isolinux.cfg: --------------------------------------------------------------------- DEFAULT linux PROMPT 1 TIMEOUT 100 LABEL linux KERNEL vmlinuz APPEND initrd=initrd.gz nomce quiet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- what i want to do is to tell at

I'm considering the suggestion which was raised before about turning the debugging messages on by default in isolinux, or specifically, not building the non-debugging-messages version in the standard distribution. What do people think (especially distro maintainers?) -hpa

hi I'm new to this, and already havin some trouble :( I tried to make my usb pen drive bootable with sysliux, but I got this message: syslinux: this doesn't look like a valid FAT filesystem But I already formatted the usb pen drive int FAT16 fs with cfdisk AND with qtparted (in both cases I got the same message). Anyone that could help me about this?

I would like to have two compressed ext2 filesystems on my CF card, one for the root fs and the other smaller one to be mounted at /opt/XXX where I can compress what is in ram after modification and write it back to disk at regular intervals of time. can anyone tell me how I can do this? Thanks

Hi folks, I'd like to write a graphical menu for a rescue Linux system I'm currently working on in my spare time. I'm experimenting with VESA for this... but my real questions are: How do I boot a Linux kernel from a COMBoot (.cbt) program ? Supposed I have syslinux.cfg that looks like this: DEFAULT menu LABEL menu KERNEL menu.cbt LABEL linux KERNEL kernel.bzi Do I have to use

Hi. I have some small utilities that is running in dos mode. How can I boot into dos with different kinds of dos command with PXELinux? My menu is working fine, but I'm not sure what I should add to run into dos. My fixes.menu looks like this: # Menu Start MENU TITLE Fixes Menu LABEL MainMenu MENU LABEL ^Return to Main Menu MENU GOTO .top LABEL dosutils MENU LABEL ^File

Thanks for Remko for his help to solve the fractional cylinder problem. But there is the second problem, the boot disk failure (see below << [B]) ... command line: initrd=disk.img harddisk c=2 h=256 s=63 BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk Disk is hard disk, 16128K CHS=2/256/63 <<<< [A] ... Loading boot sector... booting... SYSLINUX 2.04 welcome! boot: 1 [single dot]

Hello everyone, I use syslinux to make bootable USB sticks. I would like to offer the choice, right at the beginning, to either continue booting from the USB stick, or to boot as usual from the hard disk. Is this psossible to do with syslinux ? Thanks, Al

Testing the DOS-based Syslinux installer, syslinux.com, with the "-m" parameter, I found that it works as expected under MS-DOS and its DOS variants, but it seems to fail under FreeDOS (please correct me if I'm wrong). Using FreeDOS kernel v.2041 (386f32), Syslinux v.6.03-pre11 and either FAT16 or FAT32 partitions, executing: syslinux.com -m -i c: or: syslinux.com -f -m -i

Is there a method to reboot a memdisk (floppy) image? I'm working on a DOS-based installation floppy that needs to repartition the hard disk prior to proceeding. DOS will only recognize the updated partition table after a reboot, but I'd like to be able to save information to the currently loaded memdisk floppy disk and simply reboot the image. Possible? I haven't had any luck with

Hello all, after endless searching for days you might be able to help. In short: Is there a way to get Samba accept only 8.3 filenames and directory names on a share? The problem: From a windows client a user should be able to save files on a destination (samba share) which aren't longer than the old 8.3 dos convention. This is a requirement for a system behind it, which can only deal

Im pxebooting target machine with vmlinuz & initrd. Once vmlinuz loads initrd, Im calling "/bin/sh" from linuxrc script so that I get command prompt. But my machine is not connected to network. # ping 192.168.25.2 connect: network is unreachable #ifconfig -a can not open /proc/net/dev : No such file or directory my /proc is empty. Please advice how to customize initrd image to