[syslinux] USB boot problems on Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G
Ady
ady-sf at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 16 14:53:07 PST 2014
> >Are you willing to dd such image (*not* using Windows OS) and provide
> >feedback?
>
> Yes. More broadly, I am willing to dd and try *any* image you might
> ask me to try.
>
Hi Ronald,
You posted in a recent email in this same email thread, about
successfully booting an ArchLinux USB. Among several differences in
comparison to your prior tests, you used a different USB drive.
I have uploaded a gzipped image, to be expanded and dd'ed to the USB
drive that you were using for your former tests. This way you keep
your USB drive with ArchLinux available, and we can keep comparing
against your previous results.
The image I have uploaded is for testing purposes only. Once
extracted from the gzip archive, you get a 700MB test.img to be dd'ed
to your USB device.
The image includes a bootable MBR code ("altmbr.bin" from Syslinux),
no "active" partition is set, one FAT32 (LBA) partition with a
bootable SYSLINUX VBR, and some Syslinux c32 modules in it. Booting
it, should show the Syslinux version, a "hello world" message and the
Syslinux boot prompt.
Please avoid using Gparted or any other partitioning tool at this
opportunity. Just expand the image, dd it to the USB device (I mean,
to the "whole" USB device, not just to the current partition of the
USB device) and try booting the problematic system with F12 during
POST.
If the boot fails, I would suggest changing the order of the BIOS'
"boot priority" settings.
According to your feedback, we'll see how to move forward.
The image is already available for download, and will remain
available for the next 7 days.
NAME: test.img.gz
SIZE: 1'435'616 bytes
MD5 : 07A4FFC69CA51CA24D43F793E9FE8529
SHA1: 4845AB7D15994DA3EAD05DF39BDA8C4E96304328
Download (because of the email formatting, you might see the code
distributed in more than one line):
http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=g11bb56c955445d469994445242cd49ee
fb24db36f
Please let us know how it goes.
Regards,
Ady.
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