[syslinux] syslinux installation problem

[Alexei Babich]

> Per libinstaller/syslxopt.c: "  --device         Force use of a
> specific block device (experts only)\n".  I believe this feature was
> introduces for situations where the detection schemes fail to find a
> device.  In your case, it should have auto-detected to /dev/loop1
> which is the right device.  If it did not, this would be worth
> reporting as it's a bug/interaction issue.
All works fine: I could understand how it works :)

> The installers for Linux (extlinux, syslinux, syslinux-mtools) have
> never installed code to the MBR.
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mbr#Write shows a nice and very
> safe command.  If you were to write to your .img file directly, you'd
> need the options specified or dd will "delete" the rest of your .img
> file.
Thank you :) The last time I missed about dd.
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Regards,
Alexei Babich, circuit design engineer, Rezonans plc., Chelyabinsk, Russia
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