On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:30:50AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > back to the subject - syslinux should, in theory, work just fine from > the MBR, I just followed all the howtos when my other attempts failed, > and all the howtos for both Linux and Windows direct you to install it > on the partition. I have no idea if this has any significance though, > it's possible it'll fail just as miserabley either way.
In theory it should work. Damn Small Linux embeded version is supposed to boot with no changes from a USB key. Copy over the file structure (which lives nicely in either a Linux/Unix filesystem or a DOS one) to a DOS formatted memory key, install syslinux and go. It never went for me. :-( I finaly gave up and installed grub. Why it failed, I don't know, and since grub works for me, I'm happy. Sometimes it's better to just go with what you know instead of debugging something you don't. My biggest problem was getting the boot options correct. Having grub's edit mode made my life a lot simpler. Once they work, you can set the delay to zero. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
