[syslinux] booting MS-DOS with syslinux

[Amit Kucheria]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:54, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Amit Kucheria <akucheria at metricsystems.com> writes:
> 
> > Here is what I did:
> > 
> > 1a. CF card is recognized as /dev/sdb and mounted at /mnt/cf
> > 1b. MS-DOS boot floppy (/dev/fd0) mounted at /mnt/floppy
> > 2. fdisk /dev/sdb
> > 3. mkfs.msdos /dev/sdb1
> > 4. syslinux /dev/sdb1
> > 5. dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/dos.bss bs=512 count=1
> > 6. cp /tmp/dos.bss /mnt/cf
> > 7. Copy io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com, drvspace.bin from /mnt/floppy 
> > to /mnt/cf
> > 8. Copy following syslinux.cfg to /mnt/cf
> 
> I do not see the step where you put a Master Boot Record (MBR) onto
> the USB drive.
> 
> I use SYSLINUX for my project, and I wrote up instructions for booting
> it from a flash drive:
> 
>     http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.html#usb-boot
> 
> You can use freedos-mbr.bin from my project or mbr.bin from the
> SYSLINUX distribution as the MBR.  You can use my Perl script
> (install-mbr.pl, linked above) to install it on your flash drive.
> 
>  - Pat

Thanks Pat. I always seem to forget about the MBR =)

But the freedos-mbr did not work for me. The one supplied with syslinux
worked.

Regards,
Amit

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