[syslinux] Boot Windows XP using SYSLINUX

Mortaza Doulaty mortaza.doulaty at gmail.com
Mon Jun 14 03:27:56 PDT 2010


I've updated my VMWare WorkStation, the problem is now solved, the simple
boot chaining is now working as desired...

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Mortaza Doulaty
<mortaza.doulaty at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good day Shao,
>
> Yes, all of these assumptions are right.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Miller, Shao <Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
> > wrote:
>
>> Good day Mortaza,
>>
>> To catch up the list with the discussion on Boot-Land, you've attempted
>> a simple hard disk chain using:
>>
>> LABEL foo
>>  COM32 chain.c32
>>  APPEND hd0 1
>>
>> and received the "Chainboot failed!" message, which means that the
>> syslinux_shuffle_boot_rm() call returned, which is unexpected.  I
>> believe that one Chris Miller was having the same trouble at one point;
>> not too sure how it was resolved.
>>
>> You've also confirmed that your SYSLINUX installation and chain.c32 are
>> matching from the same Syslinux 3.86 compilation.  You've provided
>> meminfo.c32 output on a web page[1].  You've explained that this is in a
>> VM.
>>
>> - Shao Miller
>>
>> [1] http://www.mrt-web.com/public/meminfo.jpg
>>
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