[syslinux] Recovery console doesn't work in chain.c32 3.85 or3.86-pre1

Shao Miller Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
Wed Mar 10 19:07:57 PST 2010


Gert Hulselmans wrote:
>
> The Windows recovery console doesn't work with chain.c32 3.85 or 
> 3.86-pre1.
>
> COM32 chain.c32
> APPEND cmldr=/cmldr
>
> ...
>

The patch is:

LABEL cmdcons
  COM32 chain.c32
  APPEND hd0 1 cmldr=/cmldr

If you don't specify a partition (which are counted from 1 onwards), you 
are somehow hoping to patch "cmdcons" into the MBR, versus the 
partition's boot-sector.

- Shao Miller



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