similar to: OFF TOPIC: Chainloading CD-ROM boot after ISOLINUX + MEMDISK.

Hi, It is becoming a bad habit for big OEM vendors to sell computers & servers without floppy drives. Unfortunatly both Windows and Linux (RedHat) need a floppy drive to load storage drivers etc. during installation. This is what I was thinking: Use ISOLINUX and MEMDISK to load a floppy image of a driver disk into memory as a viritual floppy drive "A:"/"/dev/fda" And then

I have a USB disk with syslinux files installed in /boot/syslinux, and the bootloader is installed into MBR or VBR I then extracted a *.iso file which uses syslinux as the bootloader, into root dir of the disk. The iso file contains a rescue OS or an OS installer. Now I got the directory /isolinux with files isolinux.bin and isolinux.cfg in this folder I can now boot into syslinux, but *what to

Hey guys, what I am trying to do is a chainload into grub2 installation in a DomU. So far I determined, PV-GRUB does not understand grub2''s grub.cfg notation. So I created a dummy menu.lst which has the needed root kernel and initrd rows and then referenced this to the DomUs config. The main intention to do this, is to be able to use kernel upgrades without touching the menu.lst for

On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 23:19, Gregory Lee Bartholomew < gregory.lee.bartholomew at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2019-12-17 at 22:46 +0100, David Bala?ic via Syslinux wrote: > > Hi! > > I have bootable (USB flash) disk, that _appears_ to be using syslinux. > > (the word syslinux is in the PBR, in the hexdump). > > How can I chainload it? The payload seems to be a

Hi, I am having troubles with chainloading and hopefully someone can provide me with some guidance. Here's what I am trying to do: * the media is a USB key * I have created a GPT on it * I have created an EFI partition, where I have installed the EFI flavor of syslinux, the various .c32 files required for chainloading and the configuration file which tells syslinux what to chainload

Hi! I have bootable (USB flash) disk, that _appears_ to be using syslinux. (the word syslinux is in the PBR, in the hexdump). How can I chainload it? The payload seems to be a file that I tried load with COMBOOT, COM32 etc, but nothing works (they report that the file is not in proper format, wrong magic number or simply crash). How to proceed? is there a 100% way to confirm that it is really

I have a number of syslinux based USB sticks which can be booted from PCs that support USB boot. I also have a number of PCs that do not support USB Boot. They are running Windows 2000 and Windows XP typically from ntfs formatted single partition drives. Is there a way to chainload syslinux residing on a plugged in usb stick from boot.ini? I've seen instructions for how to do this for OSs on

Hi Peter, You did a great job on the isolinux and memdisk tools.. I can know, I've also written a CD-Rom disk emulator, only it's slow (read from the CD) uses 22KB conventional memory (mainly cache) and the emulated floppy image cannot be written to. http://www.nu2.nu/diskemu/ You're memdisk is fast, small conventional memory footprint and the emulated drive is writeable, very,

Hi syslinux list, Some months ago, hpa was kind enough to help me troubleshoot booting Extlinux in a system with the following particulars: * Windows Vista x64 bootloader in the MBR and Vista installed in /dev/sda1 * Extlinux 3.72 installed in the first sector of /dev/sda2 and Foresight Linux installed in /dev/sda2 (at the time I tried, 3.72 was the default bootloader in Foresight) The problem

On 6 June 2015 at 14:03, Didier Spaier via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > > > On 06/06/2015 12:19, Stoppa, Igor via Syslinux wrote: > >> So I'd like to not put all the kernels/initrds in it, because when I >> update one of the OSes, I would also have to update the corresponding >> kernel in the EFI partition. > > > IIRC this is not

Hello, I'm investigating ways to boot a DOS floppy image stored on the FAT32 EFI System Partition using Syslinux and Memdisk. The system will be running Win8 using UEFI mode (GPT disks) and secure boot off. Change the Windows efi boot loader is the easy part... With the current syslinux's alpha version (6.0), is it possible to boot the syslinux's efi module from the FAT32 EFI

> I have a USB disk with syslinux files installed in /boot/syslinux, and the > bootloader is installed into MBR or VBR > > I then extracted a *.iso file which uses syslinux as the bootloader, into > root dir of the disk. The iso file contains a rescue OS or an OS installer. > Now I got the directory /isolinux with files isolinux.bin and isolinux.cfg > in this folder >

Dear everyone, I have a simple and silly question. I'm using pxelinux in a small LAN - I'm using it to boot a few universal profiles based on Linux and DOS. I have a simple DOS-based "screensaver" (winter background theme with snow falling down) that I'd like to hook up as a default profile (say after 5 minutes timeout) into the PXElinux boot menu. That works - the

chain.c32 of SYSLINUX 3.82 does set the boot drive passed to the DL register to 0x80 and not to the boot drive (CD-drive). This can be a problem if you want to chainload grldr (grub4dos bootloader) from a CD and if you want to let grldr search for its menu.lst file on the CD. For more info: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8457 This 1 line patch fixes the issue (Thanks to

On Tue, 2019-12-17 at 22:46 +0100, David Bala?ic via Syslinux wrote: > Hi! > I have bootable (USB flash) disk, that _appears_ to be using syslinux. > (the word syslinux is in the PBR, in the hexdump). > How can I chainload it? The payload seems to be a file that I tried > load with COMBOOT, COM32 etc, but nothing works (they report that the > file is not in proper format, wrong

Hi, I would like to chainload syslinux 3.86 after booting from pxelinux of syslinux 6.04 is it possible? I was checking chain.c32, but i was not very successful so far. on my tftproot? dir i has this: pxelinux.0 boot/isolinux/ pxelinux.cfg/ isolinux_3.86/pxelinux.0 isolinux_3.86/boot/isolinux/ isolinux_3.86/pxelinux.cfg/ Does anyone know how i can, after booting from the tftproot pxelinux.0

When chainloading one pxelinux from another (e.g., chainloading from say pxelinux 4.07 to pxelinux 6.02), can one pass parameters or somehow control the root directory and/or server IP address? Here's the need: we have a loaded-up PXE server working great under 4.07, and I'm not prepared to just switch the entire setup to a newer version of pxelinux, too many folks depending on a

> On 2019-4-11 13:29, Lu Wei wrote: > > On 2019-4-10 1:20, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > >>>>> #This item fails > >>>>> label dos > >>>>> menu label MS-^DOS 7.1 > >>>>> com32 chain.c32 msdos7=io.sys > >>> > >>> IO.SYS and COMMAND.COM are copied from a Windows98 system on another >

Hi syslinux experts, So, I have a pxe boot tree that looks something like this: /menu.cfg /linux /ubuntu /amd64 /meerkat (contains a mirror of the netboot ubuntu image) If I set the following in the appropriate stanza of my dhcpd.conf (for isc dhcpd v3), I can boot the ubuntu installer: filename "linux/ubuntu/amd64/meerkat/pxelinux.0"; next-server <tftp_server_ip>; I would

On 6 June 2015 at 17:22, Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > FWIW, the most current (or "up-to-date") documentation about chain.c32 > at this time is located at: > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Chain.c32 Yes, I had a look at that, but frankly the archlinux pages were more newbie-friendly, so my research is 50% based on what I found there and for