On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:28:20AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> 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. 

RIP (the small rescue distro by the former author of LoopLinux) has a
script to convert it to a USB-bootable. WorkedForMe. I don't recall if
it were sda or sda1.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/recoveryispossible/
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/RIPLinux-1.8.mkusb.readme

> 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...

If you have syslinux installed once, there should be no need to installl
it again.

-- Tzafrir

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