[syslinux] EXTLINUX

[Gert Hulselmans]

Collins, Cris wrote:
> It hangs at the blinking cursor right after the BIOS finishes
> initializing the system. The partition on the usb drive is marked as
> active. I tried with the -z option as well, however I don't think it was
> necessary because I had been somewhat successful using Lilo. I had some
> problems compiling 4.0 under RHEL 5.4 so I moved to 3.86.
>
>
> nasm -f elf -Ox -g -F dwarf -DDATE_STR="'0x4c2a4af8'" \
>                 -DHEXDATE="0x4c2a4af8" \
>                 -l pxelinux.lsr -o pxelinux.o -MP -MD .pxelinux.o.d
> pxelinux.asm
> ld -m elf_i386  -T syslinux.ld -M -o pxelinux.elf pxelinux.o \
>                 --start-group libcore.a ../com32/lib/libcomcore.a
> /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/libgcc.a --end-group
> \
>                 > pxelinux.map
> objdump -h pxelinux.elf > pxelinux.sec
> perl lstadjust.pl pxelinux.lsr pxelinux.sec pxelinux.lst
> objcopy -O binary pxelinux.elf pxelinux.raw
> ./lzo/prepcore pxelinux.raw pxelinux.bin
> ./lzo/prepcore: pxelinux.raw: output too big (30197, max 0)
> make[1]: *** [pxelinux.bin] Error 1
> rm ldlinux.raw isolinux-debug.raw pxelinux.raw isolinux.raw ldlinux.o
> pxelinux.o isolinux.o isolinux-debug.o
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/syslinux-4.00/core'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
Write the syslinux MBR to your USB drive (mbr dir).

Try with the pre-compiled binaries.

- Gert Hulselmans