similar to: Problem with cat mbr.bin > /dev/XXX

Hi, I'm trying to use the altmbr.bin that came with 3.80 on an ATA IDE drive. When I boot I get this error msg: > Missing operating system. > > No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility. The first line is coming from syslinux, the final line is my BIOS offering for me to retry. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PC: Dell D500 notebook, P4 1.4GHz

Hi. Are there any gotchas to installing SYSLINUX in the PBR of a partition, and not the MBR of the overall hard drive? The reason I want to do this, is to take my "PXE-on-a-disk" project, and install it simply into one very small (1MB or so) FAT16 partition. ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html This partition would be placed near the very beginning of the drive.

> Hi All, > First post and hopefully someone can steer me in > the right direction for this problem. I did a bit > of googling and found some hints but nothing concrete. > > We are using Syslinux and a FAT32 USB thumb drive > (single partition) to boot a customized Debian OS > which works very well with newer motherboards. > However we have a few older Dell

Hi all, I've tried and retried to make some USB sticks bootable. I started by making one partition, labeling it FAT16, copying a kernel, an initrd and a very simple syslinux.cfg file. I ran syslinux /dev/sda1 on it. Didn't boot. I tried placing on it the mbr.bin file ('cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda') but still no boot. Then I tried various combinations of these two. Labeling

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

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

[disclaimer: I am the author of Rufus] Hi, On 2014.01.15 10:10, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > As producer of MBRs i wonder where that LBA-flag is located. > In bit 0 to bit 6 of byte 446 (where bit 7 means active/bootable) ? I haven't looked at what GParted does, so I may be off mark, but I have a strong suspicion that this LBA "flag" is a fake flag that simply indicates if a

I'm trying to install extlinux on my dual-booting computer, but when i try cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda the computer boots windows (it doesn't even come up with the extlinux menu). My partition setup is as follows: /dev/sda1 -> NTFS (Windows) /dev/sda5 -> Linux Swap /dev/sda6 -> Linux Root (/) /dev/sda7 -> Linux Home (/home) Now I presume that mbr.bin calls the bootsector of

--- tests/syslinux/test-syslinux.pl | 21 ++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/syslinux/test-syslinux.pl b/tests/syslinux/test-syslinux.pl index d86c095..8a227d4 100755 --- a/tests/syslinux/test-syslinux.pl +++ b/tests/syslinux/test-syslinux.pl @@ -29,13 +29,20 @@ my $bootloader = $ENV{BOOTLOADER} || "syslinux"; my $disk =

_ Vbox 4.2.18 VM booted with FreeDOS floppy, kernel 2041, no config.sys, no autoexec.bat, no TSR's, no memory managers. _ The booting floppy includes syslinux.com 6.02. _ Two HDD images attached to the VM, MBR + 1 FAT16 formatted partition each. Executing syslinux.com -i c: (or "d:") results in the following error: "Invalid Opcode at AD04 5080 0206 5080 2021 3666 FFFD 0083

Hello, I'm using syslinux to create bootable CDs, and I'm stuck. I'm new to the list so if there is relevant documentation just point me at it. I'm not able to get an image created with the mkisofs option -hard-disk-boot. Here's what I've done... First, I cloned the bootable Redhat CD, put it on my hard drive, created an image with mkisofs, and booted the CD. This

On 09/04/2018 01:51 AM, Patrick Laimbock wrote: > As an alternative to the XPS15 there's the new Inspiron 15 7000 series and the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme (though I have no idea if either of them runs CentOS 7). I have a Dell Inspiron 13 (8th generation) that I bought from Costco. I am running CentOS 7 on it. I was told that it has the same hardware of XPS 13. Most things work well out

On 07/09/2014 04:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > So this would seem consistent that this is the FAT12/FAT16 boundary that > breaks stuff. Perhaps FreeDOS has a problem with FAT16 on floppies? If I understand things correctly, a bootable floppy has two key pieces of executable code: the 512-byte boot sector, and the kernel loaded by that boot sector. The kernel can be large, and thus

On 03/19/2017 01:01 AM, Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux wrote: > David Christensen wrote: >> Is there a way I can build live 32-bit Debian GNU/Linux USB images without >> isohdpfx.S and syslinux.bin? > > You could try > https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexible This is how I prepared an ADATA USB Flash Drive 4 GB: # cat

Hi, I'm trying to build a bootable MSDOS disk and put it on a ISO with floppy and hard disk emulation. I want to use commonly available Linux tools like dd, losetup, mkdosfs, memdisk etc. I have done the following: 1. dd if=/dev/zero of=myImage bs=1M count=50 [ Builds a 52MB image ] 2. losetup /dev/loop0 myImage [Links /dev/loop0 to myImage file ] 3. vi /grub/stage1; %!xxd; [ NULL the partion

> Hi, > > Didier Spaier wrote: > > The issue is the inability of booting of a *physical* (not virtual) optical > > media, like for instance a DVD or a CD, using syslinux.efi. > > Actually firmware cannot find any UEFI specified booting starting points > in an ISO 9660 filesystem that was created with mkisofs -b and > -hard-disk-boot, but without a boot image

Ok, did some experiments. Here's the scoop. You will need a live USB key of CentOS 6 with a persistence layer (overlay) and the EPEL gdisk package installed to make this thing boot. On a system with Chameleon already installed, boot the CentOS 6 install media. Installing Chameleon without OSX is an adventure that I've not done, so a 'testing' OSX install (10.6) with the

Just achieved success using syslinux to multi-OS boot, including a WinXP System (boot) partition that's been encrypted with TrueCrypt (TC). You'll need syslinux version 3.81-pre13 or newer to get a working altmbr.bin file. I used: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/syslinux-3.81-pre13.zip Background: I started with a 'normal' multi-OS boot setup as

On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 10:26:22PM +0800, Chen Hanxiao wrote: > > On 04/30/2015 06:51 PM, Chen, Hanxiao wrote: > > Hi, Rich > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Richard W.M. Jones [mailto:rjones@redhat.com] > >> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 7:04 PM > >> To: Chen, Hanxiao/陈 晗霄 > >> Cc: libguestfs@redhat.com > >>

Hi, I have a 'little' issue with my bootable USB keys... The following used to work (isolinux 3.11-4): Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdg1 * 1 3 23126 6 FAT16 /dev/sdg2 4 1023 7873380 83 Linux mkfs.vfat -n BOOT /dev/sdg1 mkfs.ext2 -m 0 -b 4096 -L DATA /dev/sdg2 syslinux -s /dev/sdg1 cd