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 ================================================================= 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]
