[syslinux] syslinux booting from a third partion of ipod.

[Adrian T]

Hello, 
I hope that somebody can help me, I am trying to boot Knoppix from the third 
parition of an ipod nano with out loosing the player capabilities. After 
fdisk I have the following partitions:

slr ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 4095 MB, 4095737344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 497 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          10       80293+   0  Empty		(ipod firmware)
/dev/sda2              11         339     2642692+   b  W95 FAT32	(music data)
/dev/sda3   *         340         497     1269135    6  FAT16		(knoppix files)

It seems that every usb-linux guide uses the first partition as the boot 
partition, on the ipod nano the first partition contains the firmware of the 
device rendering it inoperable if it is removed.

After paritioning and formating with "mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sda3" I copied the 
contents of a knoppix cd to the third partition, so with ls I get the 
following

slr /mnt/usb # ls
autorun.bat  balder.img  cdrom.ico  german.kbd  ldlinux.sys  memtest
autorun.inf  boot.cat    f2         index.html  linux        minirt.gz
autorun.pif  boot.msg    f3         knoppix     logo.16      syslinux.cfg


after that I ran "syslinux -fs /dev/sda3"


Is it possible to to boot like tihs? Am I missing something? 



The contents of syslinux.cfg follows
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DEFAULT linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 
initrd=minirt.gz nomce loglevel=0 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
TIMEOUT 300
PROMPT 1
DISPLAY boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
LABEL knoppix
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 
initrd=minirt.gz nomce loglevel=0 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL expert
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 
initrd=minirt.gz nomce BOOT_IMAGE=expert
LABEL memtest
KERNEL memtest
APPEND foo
LABEL knoppix-txt
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal 
initrd=minirt.gz nomce loglevel=0 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL debug
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal 
initrd=minirt.gz debug BOOT_IMAGE=debug
LABEL fb1280x1024
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=794 
xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt.gz nomce loglevel=0 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL fb1024x768
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 
xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt.gz nomce loglevel=0 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL fb800x600
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=788 
xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt.gz nomce loglevel=0 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL dos
KERNEL balder.img
LABEL failsafe
KERNEL linux
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=normal atapicd nosound 
noapic noacpi pnpbios=off acpi=off nofstab noscsi nodma noapm nousb nopcmcia 
nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=minirt.gz 
BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix
LABEL userdef
KERNEL linux
APPEND 
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