Quoting Geoffrey S. Mendelson, from the post of Tue, 27 Jun: > 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.
well, at the moment DSL is not the problem yet. I am not even getting the syslinux prompt. if it gets there but complains about not finding the kernel I'll be in a much better place... > > 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 only fear with grub is that if I stick the key into a system with 3 other disks or a diskless station, or a machine with another UMS that accidently enumerates itself lower on the USB, and suddenly grub doesn't find its precious menu.lst on the same drive offset. Syslinux, I'm told, is set to always look for the syslinux.cfg on the partition it is booting from. hence I have no clue where it would look for it if it's on the MBR. the partition marked "bootable"? > 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. please share your menu.lst as well if you would, that'll be helpful! Thanks, Ira. -- Axis of evil Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= 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]
