[syslinux] [Q]: Syslinux and Windows 7 NTFS...

Ady ady-sf at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 26 10:25:07 PDT 2014


> 
> All of my testing is being done on a Windows 7 NTFS virtual machine ins
> ESXi 5.5 and I am using syslinux 6.02. I have tried the following on my
> Win7 NTFS C: drive:
> 
> * mkdir c:\syslinux
> * run 'syslinux.exe --force --mbr --active --directory /syslinux/ --install
> C:' This works and I can see 2 hidden files ldlinux.sys and ldlinux.c32 in
> c:\syslinux
> * I have created numerous syslinux.cfg files in c:\syslinux but they never
> work. All I get is a banner message 'SYSLINUX 6.02 etc. etc. H. Peter Anvin
> et al' and then nothing - it just sits there.
> 
 
Independently of anything else, considering that your case includes 
NTFS, PXE, VM... I would strongly suggest updating to 6.03-pre19 or 
newer.

Remember to update the needed c32 modules too.

Regards,
Ady.


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