[syslinux] syslinux can't read the configuration file on USB

[Noam Meltzer]

Hi,

Any thoughts on this?

- Noam

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Noam Meltzer <tsnoam at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:25 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
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>> On 05/16/2010 01:08 PM, Noam Meltzer wrote:
>> >>>
>> >> Can you try syslinux-4.00-pre45:
>> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
>> >>
>> >> In Syslinux 4.xx, filesystems are implemented in C instead of
>> assembler.
>> >> So Syslinux 4.xx may work.
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Sorry, I should have mentioned it, but I tried 4.00-pre40 and I had the
>> same
>> > problem...
>> >
>>
>> Please do try 4.00-pre45; there are a bunch of bug fixes since -pre40.
>>
>> It would be good if you could post an image of the USB disk; if you zero
>> out the entire stick (with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX...) before
>> building the filesystem on it then it will compress better.
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> I tried 4.00-pre45 and it didn't work.
> Unfortunately, I can not post the image here (not to mention the fact that
> the actual files takes 1.6GB and they're already quite well compressed)
>
> - Noam
>