[syslinux] [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Aug 30 12:07:46 PDT 2009


On 08/30/2009 11:16 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> Oh, ok.
> 
> I thought that syslinux (and pxelinux, isolinux etc.) was closely tied
> to the mechanism of a MBR, and even ships with some MBR...
> 
> I'll keep on dreaming, then :-)
> 

It does ship with an MBR for convenience.  It can work with any standard
MBR -- in fact the one in makebootfat is a slightly modified version of
the one from Syslinux.

	-hpa

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