[syslinux] SYSLINUX doing odd things since upgrade

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jan 30 09:49:28 PST 2008


Chris.Young at serco.com wrote:
> 
> Sent by private mail.
> 
> However... I've managed to get it working.  The drive needed to be 
> formatted as FAT32 not FAT16.  This still doesn't explain why it suddenly 
> stopped working after I upgraded it, and I thought it was formatted as 
> FAT16 previously.  My DOS.BSS isn't working but I'm not too bothered about 
> that (it's handy for the Panasonic Toughbooks which don't seem to like 
> memdisk) and I can try to fix that later.
> 
> Thanks Peter for a great little bootloader.
> 

DOS uses a different boot sector for FAT32, so you'd need to regenerate 
your dos.bss file.

	-hpa




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