[syslinux] newbie

[eli]

thanx for that. is there anything else i can use that would make it
more organized? for instance, i'm not entirely sure how isolinux works
(if it can be used for anythig other than burning cd's). but suppose i
have an iso image of a cd, can i dump that iso image onto my usb and
use isolinux to boot from that? or is there any other way i can keep
my usb drive organized?

On 10/30/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> eli wrote:
> > hi. sorry about this newbie post, but i'm lost. i have tried for
> > several days, looking at documentations, but failed. i am trying to
> > make a bootable usb drive. i would like to put everything into 1
> > directory on the usb drive (the kernel image, boot.msg, and the rest).
> > as of now (with everything in the root directory) my syslinux.cfg file
> > looks like this:
> > default vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz PMEDIA=usbflash
> > i have tried dumping everything (except the syslinux config file) into
> > a directory called linux and putting a /linux/ before everything (ex.
> > default linux/vmlinuz). the problem is that it returns an error "could
> > not find linux/v.mli". it seems that it is predisposed to seeing the
> > file as a 7 character name and thinks that my dir is part of the name.
> > is there anything i could do? perhaps change directories right away
> > and then begin the boot procedure? and how?
> >
>
> SYSLINUX (the FAT filesystem version) doesn't support subdirectories.
>
>         -hpa
>