[syslinux] How to boot from compact flash

[H. Peter Anvin]

jsiemes at web.de wrote:
> Hi,
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>>I have a 32M compact flash card on my motherboard. It is secondary master >IDE disk. Now I have to boot linux from this CF card. It is said it should >have MBR on it. How can I make a MBR on it.
>>And every time i use " syslinux /dev/hdc ", it seems destroy my partition >table.How can i do? Could you give me detailed step ?
> 
> 
> - which version do you use
> - under which system did you try to install syslinux
> - which hardware do you use
> 

"syslinux /dev/hdc" attempts to install SYSLINUX on top of the MBR
(which includes the partition table.)  This is obviously lethal.  You
should be using "syslinux /dev/hdc1" or whatever.

Installing an MBR can be done by running the command "fdisk /mbr" under
DOS; the MBR shipped with syslinux is not yet functional.

	-hpa