[syslinux] syslinux can't read the configuration file on USB

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/17/2010 08:53 AM, Matthew Holevinski wrote:
> My mistake, if i had actually read your first post thoroughly I would
> of noticed it was saying
> No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
> boot:
> 
> My response won't help you, because I thought it wasn't even booting
> the thumbdrive (my mistake)
> 
> I've only seen that when i have my syslinux.txt in the wrong folder or
> the Menu.c32 is missing or not
> referenced in the syslinux.cfg file or something.
> 

The message does come quite a bit when Syslinux is reading the wrong
part of the disk.  This is of course because the configuration file is
the first thing read, and if it is full of garbage it won't find any
directives at all.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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