I'm home at last. I did a mixture of things. I downloaded DOS6.22 floppy
from putergeeks.com, extracted my old syslinux 1.75 (dos version) into the
same boot floppy and made my CF /dev/hda1 as suggested by Luis (Hail O
King - my saviour). Lo and behold it went thro' like a hot knife thro'
butter. syslinux did not complain at all. I did an xcopy /s of my D: (hard
disk) to my C:(CF) and a reboot saw my machine happily boot from the CF.
Now that I'm home, I'm puzzled why it did not work when my hard disk was
c:
and cf d:!
Any pointers from the syslinux group on this please?
Mohan
-----Original Message-----
From: Luis.F.Correia [mailto:Luis.F.Correia at seg-social.pt]
Sent: 05 November 2002 16:28
To: 'S Mohan'
Cc: leaf-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [syslinux] CF Boot media creation
You have replied to the wrong list :)
Btw,
Do this, boot with a dos floppy having only the flash as hda1.
after booting dos, run syslinux -s c:
(you need to get syslinux compiled for dos :)
-----Original Message-----
From: S Mohan [mailto:smohan at vsnl.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:44 AM
To: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: [syslinux] CF Boot media creation
-----Original Message-----
From: S Mohan [mailto:smohan at vsnl.com]
Sent: 05 November 2002 16:13
To: Luis.F.Correia; leaf-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [leaf-user] (no subject)
I know that is the proper way. Unfortunately, I'm stuck and am mad at myself
for that.
Error message:
ERROR 440D: Unable to lock drive for exclusive access - when I use syslinux
2.00 from freshmeat. the last time, I used syslinux 1.75.
Mohan
-----Original Message-----
From: leaf-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:leaf-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Luis.F.Correia
Sent: 05 November 2002 15:48
To: leaf-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [leaf-user] (no subject)
No, you run syslinux to create the boot sector ON the CF.
Read the docs.
-----Original Message-----
From: S Mohan [mailto:smohan at vsnl.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:59 AM
To: Luis.F.Correia; leaf-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [leaf-user] (no subject)
Latest syslinux 2.00 stable version from freshmeat. Are the programs that
will just copy boot sectors or create boot sectors for /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2
etc.. that I can simply copy with a dd command?
Mohan
-----Original Message-----
From: leaf-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:leaf-user-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Luis.F.Correia
Sent: 05 November 2002 15:01
To: leaf-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [leaf-user] (no subject)
What syslinux version have you tried?
I had only success with version 2.00-pre6 (at the time)
Version 2.00 has just come out, give it a try and test it!
What is the exact error given by syslinux?
-----Original Message-----
From: S Mohan [mailto:smohan at vsnl.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:15 AM
To: leaf-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [leaf-user] (no subject)
I've been at this point before and did get some help. I've got stuck at
this
point again. I'm in search of an workable elegant solution.
When I started with leaf, I wanted to install it on a hard disk. When I used
syslinux dos version, I got an error saying cannot get exclusive access. I
was told I must use DOS6.22 Fdisk. I did and my problem got solved. I then
got a ATA PCMCIA Flash drive on which I used a 8MB PCMCIA SANDISK flash
card. It went thro' without a problem. I've a set-up machine which has a
hard disk with a 16MB partition on which leaf is installed. I boot with a
DOS floppy, execute syslinux to install MBR on the flash and then boot leaf
off the HDD(/dev/hda1) and backup to the flash (/dev/hdc1). I then disable
the hard disk in the bios and check if I can boot off the flash. So far so
good.
I got a IDE CF adaptor recently. The CF card is a 32MB card. It gets
formatted to FAT16 when formatted using DOS. I think DOS6.22 uses FAT12. I
checked syslinux site and it says we can boot off FAT12 or FAT16 partitions.
Problems occur only when cylinder count > 1024 or cluster size > 16kb. I
remember Guitarlynn's oft repeated comment in the mailing list that syslinux
gives a problem if partition is > 24MB.
I also tried Ranish Partition Manager to format the CF card in FAT12 mode.
Still syslinux gave the same error. Syslinux unix version executed under
leaf gives a grsec and segmentation fault.
Now I'm beginning to pull my hair out. I know I can do "dd if=/dev/hda
of=/dev/hdc bs=512 count=1" to get the boot sector from HDD to CF. Then my
CF should become hda1.
I tried the fdisk.lrp, installed fdisk on leaf and went thro' that fdisk too
to create the partitions. Same result.
Is there an easier method? Am I missing something very trivial? Can a more
experienced person create a script or a program to do this off leaf?
I did not fight with the system for so long the first time around. If FDISK
with DOS6.22 alone is the issue, I'm stuck in trying to locate one. Is there
another alternative? Is mkfs.msdos available in leaf?
Bye
S Mohan
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