Syslinux - Feb 2009 - (no subject)

Hi, 

The bios is not able to boot from usb, but only from floppy. I want to boot an
Ubuntu-installation from usb. The iso-file was moved with usb-creator to the
usb-stick. I have got a boot-floppy, which starts an DamnSmallLinux usb-stick.
But this bootfloppy doesn't start the Ubuntu-usb-stick.

Which parameters in syslinux.cfg I must change to start Ubuntu-Linux?

There are the following files in Ubuntu-casper:
initrd.gz vmlinuz 

The syslinux.cfg at bootfloppy begins with:

DEFAULT linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=de apm=power-off vga=791
initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
TIMEOUT 300

PROMPT 1
DISPLAY boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
LABEL dsl
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791
initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal

Regards, Svgt

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Hallo, Eberhard,

Du meintest am 28.02.09:
> The bios is not able to boot from usb, but only from floppy. I want
> to boot an Ubuntu-installation from usb. The iso-file was moved with
> usb-creator to the usb-stick. I have got a boot-floppy, which starts
> an DamnSmallLinux usb-stick. But this bootfloppy doesn't start the
> Ubuntu-usb-stick.
Maybe the sticks are partitioned in different ways.

What tells (on another machine)

        fdisk -l /dev/<DSL-Stick>
        fdisk -l /dev/<Ubuntu-Stick>

If they are different, syslinux may not help.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut