[syslinux] SYSLINUX: Cannot read ldlinux.sys

Max Liebkies aereon at tiscali.de
Sun May 8 03:07:30 PDT 2005


H. Peter Anvin schrieb:

> ganapathy murali krishnan wrote:
>
>> After you get the error, try doing a "dir /ah" at the DOS prompt. If 
>> you see a ldlinux.sys with 0 bytes, then it is exactly the same issue 
>> I had. I used FreeDOS. I couldn't find a solution so I moved to 
>> ISOLINUX. In you case, you probably dont have that option.
>
>
>> - Murali
>>
>> Max Liebkies wrote:
>>
>>> My question is the following:
>>>
>>> I need to "syslinux" a harddisk(partition-type is FAT16, size is 
>>> about 100mb). I created a Dos-Bootdisk with WindowsXP and removed 
>>> everything except command.com, io.sys and msdos.sys. Then I copied 
>>> syslinux.com (and even ldlinux.sys) to the disk but nothing seems to 
>>> help, I always get the "SYSLINUX: Cannot read ldlinux.sys"-error. 
>>> Should I use something like DR-DOS or FreeDOS?
>>>
>>> Any hints, tricks or guides on how to fix this error?
>>>
>
> You have to actually *run* syslinux.com/syslinux.exe on the targetted 
> device...
>
>     -hpa
>
What I did was "A:\syslinux.com c:"(C: being the targetted drive). Do I 
have to copy the executable file to the target drive?

 -Max




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