[syslinux] Inconsistencies between ExtLinux and IsoLinux

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Tue Mar 17 13:51:52 PDT 2009


Op 20090316 om 11:26 schreef Matthijs ter Woord:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Stefan Bucur <stefanb at zytor.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, this might be the real cause of trouble. However, using the most
> > recent version of isolinux.bin, I get the following messages when
> > trying to build with -hard-disk-boot:
> >
> > I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
> > Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> Emulating a hard disk
> > genisoimage: Warning: boot image './isolinux.bin' MBR is not a boot sector.
> > Warning: partition not marked active.
> > Warning: partition does not start at 0/1/1.
> > Warning: image size does not match geometry (4233034)
> > genisoimage: Boot image './isolinux.bin' has multiple partitions.
> >
> > The ISO image gets only 34K, and cannot boot. Matthijs, where did you
> > take your isolinux.bin file from?
>
> The files listed on the SoC page of the dynamic loader project contain
> a test harness to build a harddisk image, it also contains
> isolinux.bin: i used the exact files to build the iso.


Any documentation and/or web page that needs to be updated?




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