Quoting Ira Abramov, from the post of Tue, 27 Jun:
> 
> 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,

as I suspected...

# syslinux -s /dev/sdb
syslinux: this doesn't look like a valid FAT filesystem

syslinux is meant to be run from the partition and not the MBR, which is
why you don't have to tell it where it can find the syslinux.cfg - it's
always on the partition it booted from.

-- 
You feelin' me?
Ira Abramov
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