[syslinux] Syslinux: Broken file reading for fat16 with 3.35+?

[Ram Yalamanchili]

oops.. s/done/gone. Going to east coast ;)

On 2/6/07, Ram Yalamanchili <ramyinc at gmail.com> wrote:
> After trying for an hour or two, I couldn't get extlinux to work at all.
>
> I followed directions at: http://syslinux.zytor.com/extlinux.php
>
> Assuming /dev/sdc is my USB key, i did:
>
> fdisk - create primary partition 1 with ext3.
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1
> mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1
> pushd /mnt/sdc1
> extlinux -i . (also tried extlinux -i -z .)
> cp /tmp/syslinux.cfg extlinux.conf (also copied to extlinux.cfg,
> syslinux.cfg just in case)
> popd
> umount /mnt/sdc1
> dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc
>
> try to boot machine.
>
> Got "Missing Operating System" as the error. This is with 3.32pre8
> which works fine for me on syslinux. I'll be done for the rest of the
> week, so Peter, if you would like any further feedback from me, i can
> try to before today evening or on monday 12th.
>
> --
> Ram
>
> On 2/6/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> > Ram Yalamanchili wrote:
> > > Alright, I narrowed it down to the patchset.
> > >
> > > I tried 3.31, 3.32pre2, pre6, pre8 -- all working
> > > 3.35-pre1, pre2, 3.35 -- all failing
> > >
> > > Something happened from 3.32-pre8 to 3.35-pre1 which is messing up the
> > > file reading part i think. Are you able to reproduce this? I tested on
> > > 3 machines with the USB key and all have the same issue. (Dell
> > > Poweredge 1800, 1900, and my acer laptop).
> > >
> >
> > Could you do me a favour?  Could you check if the same thing happens
> > with *extlinux* as opposed to syslinux?
> >
> >         -hpa
> >
>