Can someone tell me if syslinux will work on a harddisk ? I have a 4mb flash device that plugs into the IDE connector on the motherboard, and i'm trying to get syslinux to work with it, so I can load a Linux kernel and an initrd. I'm not having any luck with it. Then it dawned on me that the boot loader in syslinux might be expecting a floppy drive rather than an atapi hard disk. Any thoughts? Thanks, Jim McQuillan jam at Ltsp.org
Can someone tell me if syslinux will work on a harddisk ? I have a 4mb flash device that plugs into the IDE connector on the motherboard, and i'm trying to get syslinux to work with it, so I can load a Linux kernel and an initrd. I'm not having any luck with it. Then it dawned on me that the boot loader in syslinux might be expecting a floppy drive rather than an atapi hard disk. Any thoughts? Thanks, Jim McQuillan jam at Ltsp.org
Hi, Jim McQuillan <jam at McQuil.com> schrieb am 06.02.02:> Can someone tell me if syslinux will work on a harddisk ?http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php#harddrive> I have a 4mb flash device that plugs into the IDE connector > on the motherboard, and i'm trying to get syslinux to work > with it, so I can load a Linux kernel and an initrd. > > I'm not having any luck with it. > > Then it dawned on me that the boot loader in syslinux might > be expecting a floppy drive rather than an atapi hard disk.So you have some Compact Flash adaptor, or at least the same functionality. These behave just like a hard disk. I have some here, but with >128 MB. Try if you get them to boot, if not I'll try what I can do about this. You need: - a master boot record - a FAT16 partition - activated - with a bootsector - syslinux installed there The MBR and boot sector are not automagically installed by syslinux. Regards, Josef ______________________________________________________________________________ E*TRADE - neu in Deutschland. Jetzt Depot er?ffnen + Pr?mie erhalten http://etrade.web.de
Josef Siemes wrote:> > You need: > - a master boot record > - a FAT16 partition > - activated > - with a bootsector > - syslinux installed there > > The MBR and boot sector are not automagically installed by syslinux. >The boot sector is, actually (except the so-called BPB part of it, which is really the MS-DOS superblock) but not the MBR. -hpa