On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:32, pol wrote:
> I have tried syslinux, preferable with respect to grub or lilo. as
> suggested here: http://d-i.pascal.at/
Did you read the *entire* page listed above?
I'm not being rude, nor am I trying to insult, but it looks like there
are
several known issues (difficulties) and work-arounds... just make sure that
you review the entire page to make sure.
I still think you should be using grub... and I refer you to this line
from
the link you gave above:
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ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe mainboard, BIOS Rev. 1023, "Phison Electronics usb
disk 2.0" 128 MB memory stick (only "partitionless" installation successful,
but the partitioned one did work when using GRUB instead of SYSLINUX)
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Otherwise, the article does not mention grub at all.
Probably what is happening, mainly guessing here, is that either the
loader
doesn't have the file system driver loaded (necessary to read the kernel
image), or the map is pointing to the wrong location.
One of the advantages of using grub is that the necessary file system
drivers
are available *before* any mounts occur. Also, because the boot is a two
stage process, less space is required on the device for the first stage
loader... it also can be configured with a simple text file without reloading
(/boot/grub/menu.lst) and it can be *altered* dynamically at startup from the
grub command line. Having said all that... I have never used syslinux so I
can not compare.... and, as stated before, I have not been able to upgrade my
bios yet in order to be able to boot from usb... so, I have not tried any of
this with a usb memory stick... I am going to have to get off my duff and
play with this myself...
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Kind regards,
M Harris <><
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