[syslinux] Booting Variation

Bottom Post stappers at stappers.nl
Tue Mar 29 21:17:57 PDT 2011


On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 04:51:53PM -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:08 PM,  <j1borries at online.de> wrote:
> > I did it with my usb stick. There is no partition on that stick, only a
> > FAT32 filesystem with 16GB. Because the default directory of syslinux is
> > hard codet in ldlinux.sys, you have to use a different ldlinux.sys to
> > use a different default directory.
> >
> > 1. The first syslinux is installed.
> > 2. Copy the boot sector into a file bootsect.bs (the name must be *.bs)
> > 3. Install the second syslinux using a different directory and this file
> > bootsect.bs (do not install into the real bootsector!)
> > 4. Add an entry to the config of your first syslinux to boot the file
> > bootsect.bs
>
> This sounds great.  Would you mind posting both syslinux.cfg files.

And when doing so, please allow people to read in the discussion order.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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