[syslinux] After USB boot problems on Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G

Thomas Schmitt scdbackup at gmx.net
Tue Jan 21 12:10:45 PST 2014


Hi,

hpa:
> The mkdiskimage tool in the Syslinux distribution exists for this reason.

Then 
  http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk
should point to a tutorial for mkdiskimage.

I cannot spot any occurence of "mkdiskimage" in
  http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX
  http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/HowTos

Is there already a description at other places ?


me:
> > This is used as an (inofficial ?) protocol to publish
> > the CHS factors H' and S'.
hpa:
> Indeed it is -- at least some BIOSes "deduce" the H/S to use from that.

If the end CHS address is regularly visible in partitioning
tools, then this is worth a short statement about the importance
of good H and S values in the end address.
(fdisk -l shows them only when it complains.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas



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