[syslinux] syslinux tool for Win2k and 'safeboot' option

[Ole Hansen]

Hello 

I think syslinux is great and just downloaded 2.00 and will start using it
in a couple of days.

1.
We use an IDE<->compactflash-adapter in our target-system. We use a
USB-compact-flash reader/writer(SanDisk/ImageMate) on our linux-host to
write the flash. It appears in the Linux-system as '/dev/sda', and we can
use syslinux and mount for copying kernel, syslinux.cfg and our
initial-ramdisk. This works very elegant.
If we try the same technic on a Win2k-system, the USB-compact-flash
reader/writer appears as a non-permanent-disk and I can read/write kernel,
syslinux.cfg and our initial-ramdisk as expected, but syslinux.com reports
an error trying to write to bootsector(most likely a permission-problem). 
In the user-notes for syslinux, it says that this can be ignored and that it
is likely to work anyway. I have now tried on 3 different systems without
luck(Win2k/sp2).

Has anybody made a version of syslinux.com that works on win2k on flashdisks
??

2.
Is it possible to setup syslinux.cfg for some kind of safeboot, so for
instance you could have  2 labels for kernel and if the system don't
properly from the first, then boot from the other on next boot ?? This could
be made with some kind of a flag in memory and a small utility to be called
from linux to clear this flag, if boot succeded.
We see this as a nice feature, if you want to install a new bootfile etc...,
remotely via network.

Sorry if these subjects have been discussed before, but I haven't seen
anything about it, when I looked in the FAQ-archive.

best regards

ole at danelec.dk

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