[syslinux] Syslinux patch

Joel Ebel jbebel at ncsu.edu
Thu Aug 26 11:16:58 PDT 2004


Peter, have you had a chance to look at this patch?  I somewhat expected 
some sort of reply.

Thanks,
Joel Ebel

Joel Ebel wrote:

> Out of necessity, a friend of mine and I have created a patch for
> syslinux to allow it to modify the mbr and partition table in windows.
> It adds a -m option to syslinux.  If given, it will overwrite the MBR of
> the drive specified with the mbr.bin provided in syslinux, and if the
> bootable flag is not set on the partition being syslinuxed, it will set
> it.  This was done to distribute with my USB based distribution so that
> a user can run syslinux from within windows to perform all steps
> necessary to make the pen drive bootable.  The patch only adds the
> option to the windows syslinux because performing these steps is much
> easier in linux, and there was no simple tool I knew of to it in windows
> at all.  However, adding this functionality to the linux version of
> syslinux would also be possible.  Enjoy, and Peter, if you like it,
> please feel free to modify it and merge it with syslinux.
> 
> The patch can be found here:
> http://ncsu.edu/project/runt/dist/syslinux-2.11-mbr.patch
> 
> If you're interested, my USB distribution is RUNT.
> http://ncsu.edu/project/runt
> 
> Joel Ebel
> Patch written by Richard Woodbury III
> 
> 
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