[syslinux] Booting Linux from Windows

Martin Stolpe martinstolpe at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 14:13:56 PDT 2011


2011/6/3 H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>:
> On 06/03/2011 12:53 PM, Martin Stolpe wrote:
>>
>> I'm using version 4.04 from the official repository:
>> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/syslinux/
>>
>
> OK, so there is something really broken.
>
> Since it looks like the Linux boot partition is at the beginning of your
> disk, could you send me an image of the disk including the MBR until the
> end of the Linux boot partition?  That would really help debugging.
>
> Thanks!
>
>        -hpa
>

As I don't have a webspace to upload data I've uploaded the file to a
one click hoster: http://ul.to/a15d6r28

I've used the following command to create this image: dd if=/dev/sda
of=linux.img bs=512 count=131072

Thanks for looking into the problem!


Martin




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