[syslinux] USB bootable (using syslinux)

[Miller, Shao]

Good day Agostinho,

You can find out some useful information about installing SYSLINUX in
the doc/ directory of the Syslinux package you downloaded.

If you can package your DOS stuff up into either a virtual floppy image
or a virtual HDD image, you can then use MEMDISK to boot it, once
SYSLINUX is installed on your pen drive.

chain.c32 is a COM32 module which is supposed to support booting DOS'
IO.SYS, and thus chaining to the DOS on the same partition that SYSLINUX
is installed on, but it doesn't seem to work for me at the moment.  If
might be worth a try reading the source code in com32/modules/chain.c,
as there is some info about chain.c32's usage in there.

The vesamenu.c32 COM32 program can allow you to use graphics (your
company logo); some instructions are available in doc/menu.txt, I
believe.

Give some of those a read, then some tries, then maybe you'll be lucky.
:)  Good luck.

- Shao Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
Behalf Of Agostinho Carvalho
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 20:48
To: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: [syslinux] USB bootable (using syslinux)


Hello!

I just started using Linux and I like the possibilities it offers.
I'm using Suse Linux (no MS Windows installed at all).

I also discovered that syslinux is capable of making a USB pendrive
bootable (with graphic menus).

This is very nice.


Since I'm a Windows user (up until now), I have some questions:

1 - I already downloaded syslinux 3.82
How do I install it on my pen drive so I can make it bootable?
I mean in MS windows there's always a setup.exe or config.exe file!
What's the equivalent here?



2 - I have a USB PenDrive (FAT32 file system) that has 2 boot options.
Boot option 1 = runs program1.exe that updates my BIOS (it needs MSDOS
command.com)
Boot option 2 = runs program2.exe that executes a basic hardware test on
the PC (it needs MSDOS command.com)

Through my pendrive, I don't need to access any HDD or load any
operative system.

Presently, the pen drive is using a DOS bootstrap (like the one you
obtain when you format a device using /s option under DOS).
The pendrive includes io.sys, command.com, autoexec.bat, config.sys,
program1.exe, program2.exe

My question is:
Can I use syslinux to accomplish the same thing? How??
It would be nice to have a background bootsplash logo of the company,
while the user selects one of the two boot options, using the cursor
keys.
Just like GRUB...

Notes:
I'm using suse linux (no MS Windows installed).
The pendrive has 1GB (FAT32 formatted).
I'm using a laptop (and I don't have floppy drives).

Thank you.

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