[syslinux] Dos Boot with syslinux problem.

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jun 14 11:13:14 PDT 2011


On 06/14/2011 02:44 AM, MONDON Daniel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to make an USB dual boot DOS - Linux.
> 
> If linux is set by default, it is ok.
> If DOS is set by default, it doesn't start.
> 
> 
> I've set DOS on the USB key (OK), and take dos.bss with dd command (dd
> if=/dev/sdb of=./dos.bss bs=512 count=1).
> 

You should have generated the .bss file by getting the boot sector from
the partition, not the disk -- typically /dev/sdb1.

	-hpa




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