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

[Noam Meltzer]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:25 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> On 05/16/2010 01:08 PM, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> >>>
> >> Can you try syslinux-4.00-pre45:
> >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
> >>
> >> In Syslinux 4.xx, filesystems are implemented in C instead of assembler.
> >> So Syslinux 4.xx may work.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry, I should have mentioned it, but I tried 4.00-pre40 and I had the
> same
> > problem...
> >
>
> Please do try 4.00-pre45; there are a bunch of bug fixes since -pre40.
>
> It would be good if you could post an image of the USB disk; if you zero
> out the entire stick (with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX...) before
> building the filesystem on it then it will compress better.
>
>
Hi,

I tried 4.00-pre45 and it didn't work.
Unfortunately, I can not post the image here (not to mention the fact that
the actual files takes 1.6GB and they're already quite well compressed)

- Noam