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

[Dean Graff]

Anecdotally:

dd if=/dev/zero of=binary.img bs=1M count=500
mkfs.vfat binary.img
syslinux binary.img
mount binary.img /mnt
cat > /mnt/syslinux.cfg <<EOF
DEFAULT linux
LABEL linux
LINUX /boot/bzImage
APPEND root=/dev/sda1 init=/bin/ash
EOF
umount /mnt
kvm binary.img

An unpartitioned hard disk image formatted with vfat is fairly simple.
But I absolutely understand this developer-slamming-their-head-against-desk
feeling. The above is the only formula that helped relieve that for me. By
giving me a control environment to test against. Though I am eager to try
this `mkdiskimage' now that it has been brought up.