[syslinux] Booting disk images with syslinux?

robotti at godmail.com robotti at godmail.com
Fri Aug 12 12:47:43 PDT 2005


>Even though I use linux I help a lot of windows users
>and I was curious how to tell them to do the
>equivilant of "cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda"
>
>under linux I did the following to build a usb
>bootstick
>
>fdisk /dev/sda
>(I removed everything and created one fat16 partition
>and selected it as active)
>mkdosfs /dev/sda1
>syslinux /dev/sda1
>cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda
>
>that works great but how would I tell a windows user
>how to do that? any clues?
>once its installed though any user can change it which
>is nice.

I don't know that it's needed to "cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda",
but the DOS/Win versions of syslinux have an '-m' option.

syslinux -m f:

It writes an mbr to the disk.




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