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Hi there, first, thanks a lot for syslinux! I'm aware that one can't mix syslinux 4's MBR + ldlinux.sys with syslinux 6's COM32R modules. Fair enough. Now, I need to know how strong this "versions *must* match" requirement is when dealing with different versions of syslinux 6.x. E.g. * MBR and ldlinux.sys installed by syslinux 6.03-pre1 * all *.c32 modules

hi folks, I have 3 CF disks, 16M, 512M, 4G, only the 512 is working on my soekris 4801 other 2 show: Cannot get disk parameters coming from chain.c32 chain.c32 is not to blame, as bios also gives similar error > boot 80 No Boot device available, enter monitor. all 3 CFs are readable/writable on my desktop after fiddling with various fdisk parameters, I dd'd the image off the 512, and

Hi all, Does anyone know if it's possible to recover an LVM partition from a drive that was fdisked? I accidently fdisk'd the wrong drive (had to fdisk a lot of 160GB drivers from old servers and one still has important data on that client now wants) by running fdisk /dev/sdc & deleting the partitions. The drive is still in a another machine and hasn't been rebooted yet, but

Hi. I'm trying to install the latest version of syslinux on a FAT12 partition on a 16M Flash disk. However, despire reformatting, repartioning, and running both lock c: and fdisk /mbr, I keep receiving an "ERROR 440D: Unable to lock drive for exclusive access" message. Do you have any suggestions on how to bypass this problem? Please respond ASAP. Thanks, Mario Di Giacomo

Because I accidently overwrote my smbpasswd executable file in the /usr/bin directory, I can't continue configuring my Samba server. I'm using Red Hat Linux 6.0 -Could anyone tell me what I should do to get a new executable OR -Could anyone with the same version of Samba as used in Red Hat 6.0 send me his smbpasswd executable file (and does the Samba version matter a lot?)

I am considering installing CentOS 4.4, and am interested in how best to set up. I have been using FC2 and helping administer a Debian machine for a few years, but do not consider myself a Linux guru. My current set up uses a /swap partition which is 2x my memory size mem = 256 MB $ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda6 76506 77545 524128+ 82 Linux swap I'm interested in the

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:22 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > On 05/24/2014 01:58 PM, Ady wrote: > > > > My guess is that if this was a bug in FreeDOS (as in "something" that > > has nothing to do with the syslinux.com command) then it would be > > somehow triggered by other DOS programs trying to write to the MBR. > > Considering

Hi, I'm currently teaching Linux system administration to a class at the local "chambre de commerce". The course is based mainly on a minimal CentOS 7 installation. Usually my preferred tool for handling manual GPT partitioning is gdisk, which is not installed on a minimal install. I just gave the good old fdisk a spin, which enables GPT partition table creation with the

While trying to get syslinux to work off a hard drive partition, I ran fdisk /MBR to get a a MBR on the disk and set the DOS partition as active, but still I can't get it to work. The error message I get at boot is: Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0..OK Missing operating system I'm pretty sure that the kernel image, syslinux.cfg etc. are all fine. Any ideas as to what I might be

Hello Gene, thanks for your reply. Yes BIOS mode. The config wants a menu, which loads fine under ext4 and not under btrfs. Under btrfs I have also tried to remove the syslinux.cfg file altogether (which should trigger the boot: prompt if I am not mistaken) and the result is the same: only the copyright line appears and no prompt. The three letter sequence is EDD. The disk is 160GB, here is the

If everything looks good on stick (active partition, partition ids, etc), but one computer happilly boots and the other doesn't, obviously the non-booting one doesn't like the mbr or the partitioning. For the mbr liking: The first 440 bytes can be any "normal" mbr. First take a backup of the one you have on the USB stick/disk now with "dd if=/dev/sdx bs=440 count=1

Hello, I have a 2GB USB disk on key on /dev/sdb1. I had created on it one partition (FAT16). This partition holds all cylinders of the USB disk. I want to create a bootable Linux USB disk. For this, I tried: syslinux -s /dev/sdb1 An than I ran: fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 2048 MB, 2048729600 bytes 64 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1008 cylinders Units = cylinders of 3968 * 512 = 2031616

CentOS Community, I have a dedicated server with 4 hard drives in a RAID 10 software configuration running LVM. My OS is CentOS 6.2. Earlier today, I rebooted my system and my system did not come back online. I opened a ticket with my datacenter who informed me that one of my hard drives is no longer recognized by the bios and has failed. I was told that an OS reinstall was needed. I

Thank you all for the help. I'm writing this summary message because of people requests. I haven't tried all of this. I just collected it and organized it. You've got a big storage. Now what? The short answer is: "Just connect it. It should work." I'll play safe by saying that the following applies to <10TB storage. Some people reported file systems of 80TB.

Hi, I'm trying to install debian-6.0.5-amd64-CD-1.iso from USB memory-stick. The problem is, that Debian-Installer is not able to "Detect and mount CD-ROM" during the installation process. The USB memory-stick is a 2GB model containing MBR and FAT32 file system: # fdisk -lu /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 2013 MB, 2013265920 bytes 62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders, total 3932160

Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now.... I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothing was done to the internal hard drive... Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloader on the hard drive. Now what? Can I rescue things? I am leaving for my flight in a couple hours to

On Jun 30, 2020, at 1:25 PM, John Pierce <jhn.pierce at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:12 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am trying to use CentOS 8 host to boot an image (OS X) that I created >> using dd. >> >> First I tried fdisk -l image_file.img ... > > > fdisk has been deprecated for quite a

On 01/24/17 19:00, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/24/2017 02:14 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> So, it installed happily. >> Then wouldn't boot. > > What did the storage configuration look like, exactly? I'd guess that you put > one partition on each disk, combined those in a RAID1 MD array, made than an > LVM physical volume, and then created filesystems and

Hi, I'm unable to utilize extlinux properly. I must be doing something wrong: Clear entire hdd: dd if=/dev/zero of=/devv/hda bs=1M Creating single active partition...: fdisk /dev/hda Formatting the partition...: mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1 Mount it: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd Install extlinux: extlinux -i /mnt/hd reboot machine and force it to boot from the hdd... "Booting from

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