[syslinux] Need help chainloading from isolinux.

[Andrew Stuart]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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
Sorry, I left a piece out.

from simple.c : add_item("ERD","ERD Commander",OPT_RUN, "chain erd1.dat",0);

also from the prompt: chain erd1.dat
I have also tried chain.c32 erd1.dat from both, and chain(.c32) 
/erd1.dat or chain(.c32) \erd1.dat variants.

-Andrew

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