[syslinux] drive size limit for syslinux

[j1borries at online.de]

My problem with  syslinux-4.03 was resolved in syslinux-4.04-pre7.
Give it a try!

Juergen

Am 09.03.11 17:16, schrieb Rance Hall:
> I was working on making a 40gb laptop ide drive bootable via syslinux
> as the drive is in an external hd enclosure.
>
> syslinux installed on a 100 mb bootable fat32 partition and when I
> tried to boot from the drive, I got a syslinux prompt which was
> correct as I had not done a config file yet.
>
> I later found a 60GB laptop ide drive and put the larger drive in the
> enclosure and tried to install syslinux on that, using the same 100mb
> fat32 boot partition.
>
> This time no joy.
>
> I get an error indicating that no OS can be found.
>
> I triple checked and followed the exact same procedure in both cases,
> so I'm lost as to what is wrong.
>
> I can go back to the 40gb drive for sure, but this kind of stuff
> always interests me.
>
> Is there a non-bug reason why this wouldn't work, like a drive size
> limit in syslinux?
>
> P.S.: it was syslinux-4.03
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rance
>
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