[syslinux] Bug-report: Booting DOS images from USB

[Josef Siemes]

Hi,

Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> schrieb am 20.01.04 16:56:26:
> I'm doing a small hobby project writing some tools to put DOS boot images 
> and Linux rescue images on a USB stick.
> 
> For this I have partitioned my USB stick in 2 partitions, one 192MB 
> partition with a VFAT filesystem (for the normal use) and a second 
> partition with an ext3 filesystem.
[..]
> I fear this is a bug in memdisk when booting from USB devices. It would be 
> nice if this could work.
> 
> The setup (for testing-purposes) is like this:
> 
> 	/dev/sda 	->	lilo
> 	/dev/sda1	->	syslinux (vfat)
> 	/dev/sda2	->	grub (ext3)
> 
> The software used is:
> 
> 	syslinux 1.08

You mean 2.08, correct?

> 	memdisk 1.08

Dito.

> I have the same problems when booting memdisk via grub or lilo.
> The only noticeable difference between syslinux and grub/lilo is that when 
> booting FreeDOS with syslinux I get a division-by-zero error 
> and a stack-trace.

Did you try to boot these images via hard disk?
Did you try to set up a FAT (no VFAT) Filesystem on the USB stick? Syslinux can't
do anything about vfat, it only uses FAT.

Regards,

Josef

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