AW: [syslinux] grub in the mbr

[Maximilian Ebert]

Okay that’s working but.....
Hehe
In my amilo m 7400 its working without prob and my desktop board asus p4s533
also but my dell inspirion laptop hangs after the message
[SYSLINUX.........] before the bootmanager really appears. The usb stick led
is blinking the hole time like if he is searching something. Any idear?

thx 

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Von: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
Gesendet: 10 October 2004 08:59 PM
An: max.ebert at titoly.de
Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
Betreff: Re: [syslinux] grub in the mbr

max.ebert at titoly.de wrote:
> hi,
> i ve grub in the mbr of my usb stick and now i am not longer able to 
> use the syslinux bootmanager. i tried to delete grub from mbr with:
> dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
> 
> but nothing changed grub is still in the mbr hope somebody can help me
> 

It's not, but you have to write a new MBR.  You can use the MBR that came
with syslinux, mbr.bin:

cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda

Then create a FAT partition with fdisk, mkdosfs /dev/sda1, syslinux
/dev/sda1.

	-hpa