[syslinux] Syslinux + USB + PE 2.0

[H. Peter Anvin]

Peter.Leenders at computacenter.com wrote:
> 
> Hello Matt,
> 
> as it seems to me you use a ghostimage of vista/vista pe  and try to
> make some bootable usb stick's with it. Since the bcd-file inside the
> image isn't changed you have to ensure that the mbr of your usb-sticks
> have the same (belonging) disc signature. Ghost (at least older
> versions) will not do this, they will create a new disc-signature for
> each disks (which was was know as proper style  - before vista).
> 
> Theeasiest way for USB-stick with differnt sizes to do this is to make
> a copy of the original mbr without partition table and restore it later.
> Use bs=444 instead of 512 in commandline of dd for this, restore your
> ghost image to the stick and copy disk signature with dd onto the stick.
> You may need a full MBR-copy (512 yte size) of this new created MBR to
> boot this stick with syslinux.
> 

440, not 444, unless you want to clone the MBR serial number.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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