[syslinux] Need help chainloading from isolinux.

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Nov 17 14:23:20 PST 2006


Andrew Stuart wrote:
> i am trying to use chain.c32 with isolinux to load WinPE/BartPE/etc and 
> I can not get it to work.
> I have tried with the simple.c32, and just from the isolinux prompt. I 
> have tried 3.32-pre6, 3.20, and jumped back and tried 3.08. All 
> configurations fail with 'Cannot read Master Boot Record'.
> 
> The boot sectors are known to be good, and are known to work with 
> chain.c32 with pxelinux. they also work with CDShell, and its bundled 
> isolinux/chain.
> 
> 
> My isolinux.cfg:
> DEFAULT      menu.c32
> PROMPT       1
> TIMEOUT      100
> ONTIMEOUT    boothdd
> 
> LABEL boothdd
>  localboot  0x80
> 

I'm confused; you said you were using chain.c32?

Also, is this one machine only, or more than one?

	-hpa




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