hi, i ve grub in the mbr of my usb stick and now i am not longer able to use the syslinux bootmanager. i tried to delete grub from mbr with: dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 but nothing changed grub is still in the mbr hope somebody can help me thx so long
max.ebert at titoly.de wrote:> hi, > i ve grub in the mbr of my usb stick and now i am not longer able to use > the syslinux bootmanager. i tried to delete grub from mbr with: > dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > > but nothing changed grub is still in the mbr hope somebody can help me >It's not, but you have to write a new MBR. You can use the MBR that came with syslinux, mbr.bin: cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda Then create a FAT partition with fdisk, mkdosfs /dev/sda1, syslinux /dev/sda1. -hpa
What doeas -s really do? Does it change something in the mbr oder in the first 512 bytes of the fat partion? max -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] Gesendet: 10 October 2004 10:58 PM An: Maximilian Ebert Cc: syslinux at zytor.com Betreff: Re: AW: [syslinux] grub in the mbr Maximilian Ebert wrote:> Okay that?s working but..... > Hehe > In my amilo m 7400 its working without prob and my desktop board asus > p4s533 also but my dell inspirion laptop hangs after the message > [SYSLINUX.........] before the bootmanager really appears. The usb > stick led is blinking the hole time like if he is searching something. Anyidear?>Sounds like a BIOS bug of some kind; try syslinux -s. -hpa
Maximilian Ebert wrote:> What doeas -s really do? Does it change something in the mbr oder in the > first 512 bytes of the fat partion?-s means read one sector at a time. It does change the first 512 bytes of the FAT partition. -hpa
> Maximilian Ebert wrote: >> What doeas -s really do? Does it change something in the mbr oder in the >> first 512 bytes of the fat partion? > > -s means read one sector at a time. It does change the first 512 bytes > of the FAT partition. > > -hpa >nice thanks now every thing is working. is there an howto out howto change the splashscreen of syslinux? max