[syslinux] Question on docs

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Oct 2 20:15:28 PDT 2002


Emilio M Recio wrote:
> Just wondering if there was any documentation other than what's on the 
> FAQ/webpage?
> 
> If not, under the section which says how to be able to use syslinux on a 
> harddrive, it states, "A simple MBR, roughly on par with the one 
> installed by DOS (but unencumbered), is included in the SYSLINUX 
> distribution"
> 
> How do i install this MBR to the harddrive (in my case, I am using a USB 
> drive partitioned into three.)
> 
> I have tried:
> 
> dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
> syslinux /dev/sdb1
> 

That should work -- except that the mbr.asm shipped with SYSLINUX 1.x is 
broken.  Get the latest SYSLINUX 2.xx prerelease and it should work.

(Hmmm... I should merge it back into the 1.x tree.)

	-hpa





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