[syslinux] SYSLINUX GRUB and booting logical partitions on USB drive

Sergey Vlasov vsu at altlinux.ru
Tue Jul 1 12:11:27 PDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:43:35PM +0200, greenfinch wrote:
> - syslinux 3.63
[...]
> hd0_1 -> successfully booting damn small linux from sdb1 -> o.k.
> hd0_2 -> successfully booting damn small linux from sdb2 -> o.k.
> hd0_3 -> successfully booting damn small linux from sdb3 -> o.k.
> hd0_4 -> SYSLINUX stucks -> o.k. because external partition, not bootable
> hd0_5 -> message 'Requested logical partition not found' -> not o.k. because logical partition exists!
> hd0_6 -> message 'Requested logical partition not found' -> o.k. because partition does not exist!

You need a newer syslinux version (at least 3.64-pre1) - in older
versions chain.c32 had a bug, and booting from logical partitions did
not work at all.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=commitdiff;h=e31a673cc14223db120f363dcd6ecc491125f622
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