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I'd like to use chain.c32 to allow the computer boot from HARDDISK if needed. If I use isolinux and boot from CD, the following works OK: chain.c32 hd0 But if I boot from USB Flash Key, it sometimes work and sometimes it doesn't and I have to use chain.c32 hd1 (it seems BIOS assigns hd0 to the flash key sometimes, so the real harddisk is hd1 in that case). Is there any way to tell

Hi, I am using syslinux-4.00-pre24, -pre27 and -pre31. chain.c32 fails for pre27 and pre31 for particular configs ... shown below. 1) works on pre24, fails with error message "Chainboot failed!" for pre27 and pre31 LABEL local MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL Local Boot ... (skip PXE boot) KERNEL chain.c32 APPEND hd0 0 2) works on all three. LABEL local

Hi all, I use XP on my laptop PC, with 30 GB HD (single partition), and a 3.5" hard drive (not a stick), accessed through a USB encasing, partitioned as five logical drives. I have successfully set up syslinux to boot several Ubuntu versions from the primary USB hard drive partition, and no problems there. The problem is, I would like to have an entry in the menu, like "Boot from

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 09:57:26AM +0300, Ady wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:14:05PM +0300, Ady wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 04:31:09PM +0300, Ady wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Platform: MS XP > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. cfg file: > > > > > > prompt 1

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:14:05PM +0300, Ady wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 04:31:09PM +0300, Ady wrote: > > > > > > > Platform: MS XP > > > > > > > > 1. cfg file: > > > > prompt 1 > > > > timeout 150 > > > > display /downloadedPrograms/syslinux/syslinux.cfg > > > > > > >

Hello, I've been having a problem trying to boot from first hard drive via pxelinux 5.01 on a HP Proliant server having a SmartArray P220i RAID controller. On other hardware and VMs that i've tried it works. My config file looks like this: label localboot kernel chain.c32 append hd0 Is this a known issue or has anyone experienced this? Thanks, Andrei

Hello! I am trying to boot from the MBR of my hard disk using PXELinux. here is the (relevant) part of my pxelinux.cfg/default LABEL harddisk KERNEL chain.c32 append hd0 All I get is a single dot and then the boot process stops. What am I doing wrong? Alex

Hi again, I'm still blocked with chain.c32. Does it allow drive swapping like Grub or not? If not, how to boot a Windows system that is located on hd1 1 (instead of regular hd0 1)? Can't find any clue/doc on chain.c32. Thanks

I'm currently building a tree-like boot menu for my network, using pxelinux and vesamenu.c32. I jump from one page to another with "kernel vesamenu.c32" and "append newmenu". However, at some points I'd like to use the classic interface, for example with a distribution install image (in order to have the exact same interface as on the CD). I tried loading pxelinux.0

Hi all, I have a similar issue with Thomas Mieslinger mentioned in the previous mail. The difference is here isolinux is used instead of gpxelinux.0. I use isolinux 3.85, and "chain.c32 hd0" to boot the local Debian Lenny Linux on VMWare workstation 6.5, it fails. If I replace it with isolinux 3.84, it works. Hope this report helps. Steven. -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org

Hello all I have installed "syslinux" as follows: Microsoft(R) Windows 98 (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999. C:\WINDOWS>format o: /s C:\WINDOWS>format o: /s WARNING, ALL DATA ON DISK DRIVE O: WILL BE LOST! Proceed with Format (Y/N)?y Checking existing disk format. Formatting 967.98M Format complete. System transferred Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?

Lu Wei, What Hard drive are you also trying to boot? The first and only fixed drive inside a computer? If so would the line to boot a local HD not be: LABEL LOCAL MENU LABEL Local operating system in harddrive (if available) kernel chain.c32 append hd0 -Adan On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 8:56 AM Adan Calderon <adancalderon at gmail.com> wrote: > > Lu Wei, > > For the DOS portion

I made several attepmts using the tree of 5.01 2013. My syslinux.cfg file has display /path_to/syslinux.cfg directive. 1. The installation, with a --directory option, was successful. After boot I got syslinux boot prompt. The syslinux.cfg was not displayed. I guess that means the MBR was there, but not the partition boot sector. Then I noticed the thread at

Hi H. Peter Anvin, I wanted to thank you for sharing information about PXE, I have used this a lot and I wanted to share something that may be important for you and your readers. I have many different Dell model, they all worked well with PXE booting however not for E5510. I noticed that using "LocalBoot -1 or 0" doesn't work well. What I did use for Latitude E5510 (Bios A06)

Hello syslinux mailing list, I've been working on a kind of system administration tool ( http://twyna.sourceforge.net/) with a colleague of mine for our Computer Science Bachelor degree internship. I hope I'm saying that right :) We use gPXELinux to boot over a web service and it's all working marvellously, except for the localboot bug. Until now we've used chain.c32 to solve

I was seeing if I could use chain.c32 to boot windows off of a second drive. I'm pretty sure I'm using it right. Could it be because these are sata drives? I installed FC5 on a second sata drive I had in my new machine. Of course Grub didn't work as I wanted so I decided to try extlinux and if I can get it to work I might switch to syslinux so that I can edit the boot info in windows

Thanks to debugging information from Thomas Mieslinger, I have root-caused the failure of chain.c32 in Syslinux 3.85. I have put out Syslinux 3.86-pre1 and Syslinux 4.00-pre33 which fix the problem. I expect to release a Syslinux 3.86 relatively shortly (ideally in the next two weeks), with bug fixes only. I would like to figure out if there are other bug fixes we can get in in reasonable time,

Hi. I prefer using the syslinux boot loader and recently undertook a project of creating a multiboot USB drive that boots using syslinux. The aim is to create a medium from which various live linux environments can be run for things like system maintenance, installation, and perhaps demonstration. I anticipate using this multiboot USB drive on mostly legacy, BIOS systems, if that matters. As

On 2019-4-10 1:20, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: >>> Test #2: if you unplug the USB and reboot the system, can you >>> successfully boot directly to the HDD's OS? >>> >> Yes. The only HDD, NTFS, WindowsXP native boot loader ntldr. > > > Let me rephrase my question. It was/is clear that you used to be able > to boot Windows when the first boot

The Windows recovery console doesn't work with chain.c32 3.85 or 3.86-pre1. COM32 chain.c32 APPEND cmldr=/cmldr Initially reported by cdob at: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10487#entry94001 It did work fine with the: "chain.c32: Handle nonlinear logical partitions" patch. The following patch broke the recovery console hack: chain.c32: add option to set hidden