[syslinux] Syslinux + USB + PE 2.0

[Matthew Holevinski]

Now the trick is getting ghost to let me make an image of this
thumbdrive that actually works so I can redistribute this to my other
co-workers.
when I use the image boot switch, it copies off my 512meg fat32
partition but it's not getting the boot sector for some reason and if
i did a sector by sector
copy i'd end up with an 8 gig ghost image, and I don't want that.

Matt

By The Way, I renamed my vista.bin file to vista.bss and changed my
syslinux.cfg file to BOOT vista.bss instead of kernel vista.bin
and its still working like a charm, just can't figure out how to
redistribute this...


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM,  <Peter.Leenders at computacenter.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Matt,
>
>> Reformated USB Thumbdrive 8 gig DataTraveler using windows PE.
>> Verified PE installation on it would boot normally without syslinux
> bootloader.
>
> Instead of formating to create MBR from a running Vista/Vista PE and with
> USB-Driveletter F: you can also use the following command:
>
>    bootsect.exe /NT6 F: /force
>
>
>
>
>
>> and BOOM! Everything works like a charm now, that vista.bin file of mine
> is like
>> gold if you ask me, i should redistribute that thing on the internet
>> for anyone else who might need it.
>
> Since the Vista Bootloader "bootmgr" works different to "ntloader" from
> former Windows-
> versions, it cares about 4 Bytes in the MBR the disc-signature at position
> 440-443
> (0x01B8). This value is stored in the file \Boot\BCD (Because the bcd file
> is not a
> simple textfile, it has to be editwith a special tool called bcdedit). As
> result of
> this you need a mbr belonging to your special Vista/Vista PE installation,
> otherwise
> you will get a winload error after starting the bootloader.
>
> Peter Leenders
>
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