similar to: extlinux geometry issue

I am trying to boot Linux from a USB memory device containing an ext2 file system using extlinux and having a bit of trouble. Apologies for any naiive questions and assumptions. The USB device is an 8M byte Compact Flash card in a USB reader. I used fdisk to create a single partition across the whole of the device (partition 4 - is that important?) and made it bootable. Fdsik reported the

I'm playing with syslinux 3.0x to get PC to boot from USB key... In particular, I'm giving a look at the "ZIP geometry hack" to get some more BIOS boot working with USB... Some question: - if we have a usbkey with a single partition, can we change the geometry without requiring to reformat the partition? Or is a reformat unavoidable? - at the moment we can use the "ZIP

Hai , I am Prasanth .Newly subscribed to mailing list.I am in search for a boot loader which could boot linux form Usb flash memory. i am in process of building a new USB linux distribution . Can anybody give help. Things I need to know. Could syslinux could recognize a usb flash drive and filesystem inside that ? If yes is how ? Thanks in advance, Prasanth Kurian

Hi, I found a bug in extlinux/main.c. Writing a bootloader on a file mounted via /dev/mapper in Lunix it crashed on me with a segment fault. The bug is here: if (!ioctl(devfd, HDIO_GETGEO, &geo)) { Since we are already called with geo as a pointer the & is wrong as the pointer itself will be overwritten. This works: int get_geometry(int devfd, uint64_t totalbytes, struct

Hi folks! In my system i have a SSD card, and i try to install extlinux in it. But, my extlinux installation not work!! I make a initrd to boot my machine on lan, and my init execute a installation of extlinux version 3.86 on my SSD card. The installation on init is similar to: http://pastebin.com/szcYCCjR The return of installation of extlinux is: /mnt is /dev/sda1 And the install not report

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

OK, been perusing the archives and Google, but can't find what I want. I'm building up a 512 MB compact flash using the CLFS directions to build the filesystem. That works great, but I would like to use extlinux to make the cflash bootable on my little SBC. However, to date, no dice. Attached is my extlinux.conf file and the steps I have used to make this work. Initially I tried to

Hi all, This maybe a newbie question in which case I apologise hugely. While I'm not new to Linux I am new to bootloaders :-/ I would like to install a custom CD distribution on a system via serial interface (that bit I can do) but the system doesn't have a CD-ROM drive! I'm trying to copy the ISO to the disk and boot from that. So far I have done this... - Net boot the system

I just released Syslinux 4.00-pre40. This is now a Release Candidate, meaning that it is on track to be released as it currently is unless I hear back about currently unexpected problems. If you have a chance, please pretty please test it. -hpa

Hello, We just had our servers fitted with more disks. Most of the disks are growing existing RAID 1+0 channels, some are in new channels. Controllers and disks support live installation. I'd like to avoid a reboot just to let the system find that the disks are larger. All I can find so far suggests that its possible to rescan the disks, and even find the new geometry (e.g.

I have 3 older pentium-3 systems (asus cubx, asus cusl2-c) that give a "boot failed" message when trying to boot with extlinux on a flash card (which uses an ide converter, so it looks like a regular ide hard drive to the os & bios). These worked fine when I used syslinux & fat16. If I take out the flash card & ide converter and put it in a newer p4 system, it boots fine.

I am trying to boot a ramdisk on a usb stick in read-only mode using extlinux. When the system boots all I am getting is a blinking cursor. The stick booted with lilo, but I had some issues with lilo so I am trying extlinux. 1) I partitioned the stick as a linux partition, formated it ext2, and mounted /dev/sda1 on /mnt/flash. 2) I am running extlinux 3.86. 3) excuted "extlinux -i

Changes in 3.61: * EXTLINUX: fix crash when accessing an empty file. * elf.c32: If a PHDR segment is present, load it. * Fix SHA-1 and MD5 passwords. * ISOLINUX: fix booting when mastered without mkisofs -boot-info-table (broken since 3.50, sigh...) * Handle BIOSes which emit multiple contiguous valid memory regions in the e820 map. Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 3.61 Entered-date:

Hello, Happy New Year! These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that. I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids confusing others, I will

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

Hi, We bought a new Dell PowerEdge 2950III with Perc 6/i and have the disk geometry problem using 6.3 final or 7.0 RC1. Seems that we are not alone at least one guy has similar problem reported earlier: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-01/msg00506.html I was reading the mailing list and found that some of the people are happily using this hardware with the latest

Hi, I have been seeing data corruption on the ZFS filesystem. Here are some details. The machine is running s10 on X86 platform with a single 160Gb SATA disk. (root on s0 and zfs on s7) ...Sanjaya --------- /etc/release ---------- -bash-3.00# cat /etc/release Solaris 10 6/06 s10x_u2wos_09a X86 Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights

Hello syslinux, Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: $ extlinux -i /dev/sdXN or $ extlinux -i file_block Also it can work with something like: $ extlinux /dev/sdXN --reset-adv or $ extlinux file_block --reset-adv We don't use a new option (I planed to use "-d" but it is already in use), it will check whether the

Hey folks, So what's the word on AHCI and bios drive geometry? I'm having a real pain of a time trying to get some 750gb sata drives running on my FreeBSD7 box in AHCI mode. It doesn't seem to matter what disk geometry I suggest to sysinstall, something complains of an invalid disk upon booting it. Actually, in AHCI mode the bios screen doesn't report any information on

From: Ryan Harper <ryanh at us.ibm.com> Rather than faking up some geometry, allow the backend to push the disk geometry via virtio pci config option. Keep the old geo code around for compatibility. Signed-off-by: Ryan Harper <ryanh at us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori at us.ibm.com> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c index