Hi. I need some help from the experts please. I am experiencing a
syslinux error message and I cannot find much in the way of help or
reference from the documentation or the archives. Using a USB hard
drive (as detailed below), I have three primary partitions and one
extended partition.
Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 8 64228+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb2 9 16 64260 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb3 17 81 522112+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb4 82 7295 57946455 f W95 Ext'd
(LBA)
/dev/sdb5 82 114 265041 b W95 FAT32
The three primary partitions boot successfully, but when attempting to
boot from the logical partition I receive the following error:
"Requested logical partition not found".
Hmm. I am using syslinux-3.31 and have even tried using
syslinux-3.32-pre7 (all from Windows, though), and still the same error
message. I've partitioned the drive from both Windows XP Pro and from
the GParted-LiveCD-0.3.1-1 to compare the results. Again, no change -
same error. I have tried other OS instances on the logical partition to
no avail, so it should not be the content of the partition causing the
error. Below is the syslinux.cfg file I am using. Simply, I am doing
something wrong, no? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
DEFAULT vesamenu.c32
PROMPT 0
MENU TITLE WD Passport Portable Multiboot
MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
LABEL Gparted
MENU LABEL ^GParted LiveUSB
KERNEL linux
APPEND noapic initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
ramdisk_size=65000
LABEL grc.com
MENU LABEL ^SpinRite v6.0
KERNEL memdisk
APPEND initrd=SpinRite.img
LABEL ntpassword
MENU LABEL ^Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
KERNEL chain.c32
APPEND hd0 2
LABEL WipeDrive
MENU LABEL ^WipeDrive Pro
KERNEL chain.c32
APPEND hd0 3
LABEL puppylinux.org
MENU LABEL ^Puppy Linux 2.12
KERNEL chain.c32
APPEND hd0 5
