[syslinux] Gigabyte motherboards and Syslinux

[Sergey Vlasov]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:09:34AM -0500, Rodney Beede wrote:
> I read the mailing list archive about Gigabyte motherboards not working 
> with USB booting ("[syslinux] Gigabyte recent bios & syslinux extlinux 
> trow USB-IDE bridges or pendrives", 16 Aug 2006).
> 
> I have a Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H motherboard that I tried to boot in 
> USB-HDD mode with a PNY boot pen.  I installed System Rescue CD on it.
> 
> It would appear that Gigabyte still doesn't support booting from USB 
> with Syslinux.  I did boot BartPE (Windows based boot loader) from the 
> same usb key without issues on the board.  There are no bios updates for 
> my motherboard.
> 
> My question:  Has anyone successfully booted from a USB key chain drive 
> with Syslinux and a Gigabyte motherboard?

At least several months ago with GA-P35-DS3R booting SYSLINUX worked
fine with Transcend JF110 1GB partitioned as follows:

Disk /dev/sdd: 1048 MB, 1048576000 bytes
32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1   *           1        1014     1022080+   6  FAT16

However, GA-P35-DS3R is an Intel chipset motherboard, and the USB
storage support module in its BIOS might be completely different from
the implementation for the AMD 790 chipset.
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