[syslinux] [syslinux.exe] Failures to use\install on xp+ntfs
Matt Fleming
matt at console-pimps.org
Mon Feb 11 05:41:20 PST 2013
On Mon, 11 Feb, at 05:52:44AM, Regid Ichira wrote:
> I made several attepmts using the tree of 5.01 2013.
> My syslinux.cfg file has
>
> display /path_to/syslinux.cfg
>
> directive.
>
> 1. The installation, with a --directory option, was successful.
> After boot I got syslinux boot prompt. The syslinux.cfg was not
> displayed. I guess that means the MBR was there, but not the
> partition boot sector.
Could you paste your entire syslinux.cfg?
> 2. The second attempt was to run syslinux.exe without a --directory
> option. The installation succeded. When booting, I got the
> display of /syslinux.cfg. But booting to XP failed. The
> message was:
>
> failed to load COM32 file chain.c32
>
> syslinux.cfg has the lines
>
> kernel chain.c32
> append hd0 1
Did you copy chain.c32, libutil.c32 and libcom32.c32 to your
installation directory? Were there any other error messages printed?
> 3. I thought that while trying to look into it, I will also have
> syslinux running from c:\its_own_directory. I tried two
> directories name. With both names, syslinux.exe gave me
>
> Failed to move ldlinux.sys to destination directory: c:\dir\
> Failed to move ldlinux.c32 to destination directory: c:\dir\
>
> I can't tell why earlier syslinux.exe succeeded to install under
> a deeper directory, but with c:\a_directory_closer_to_c it failed.
Did you create the subdirectory before running the Syslinux installer?
If I'm remembering correctly, the win installer will not create
subdirectories for you, they must already exist.
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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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