A set of lightweight boot loaders for MS-DOS FAT, ext2/ext3/ext4/btrfs filesystems, network booting and booting from CD.
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problem with setting up multiboot ISO usb using syslinux
I have followed this tutorial: http://blog.jakgibb.com/2013/01/03/creating-a-multiboot-usb-stick-using-syslinux/
I want to boot linux live ISOs directly from USB drive using syslinux instead of ...
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Manually cloning a Live USB Arch distro to a VMware virtual disk
I installed Arch Linux on a pen drive with yumi, based on syslinux. I would like to test the USB distro in VMware.
To speed up things I would like to clone the UFD as a VMware virtual disk (vmdk).
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How can I chainload grub2 from syslinux?
Due to the current state of my setup, I want to make syslinux which is my main bootloader to chainload grub2. Google brings up plenty of info on how to chainload syslinux from grub2, but nothing ...
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GRUB Black Screen Problem
A Couple days ago I bought a laptop with NVIDIA G105M and Intel Core Duo Inside which has Windows 7 default. As a Linux fan, I wanted to install Ubuntu to my laptop and I plugged in my old live USB ...
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Execute Script in Syslinux
I want to execute a script in Syslinux. Is this possible?
To be more specific: I want to write a one-time-windows-boot-script that does the following:
reboot into windows,
on the next reboot: ...
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Add Ubuntu to Arch linux Dual boot, Keeping Syslinux, without GRUB
Situation
I have Arch Linux installed on /dev/sda1 (15GB/ext4). / and /boot are both on /dev/sda1 and /home is on /dev/sda2 (100GB/ext4). I made a 15GB/ext4 /dev/sda3 partition for Ubuntu. I ...
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Chainload syslinux from grub2 - show syslinux.cfg menu
I am using a Clonezilla live USB disk to reimage systems.
In accordance to what is explained in ...
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Multiboot USB drive using relative paths with Syslinux (or another bootloader)
I want to make a multiboot USB drive with Ubuntu, Backtrack and Mantra-OS on it (all Ubuntu variants as you can see).
Those are the steps I've done:
sudo su
unmount /dev/sdb1 ...
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Debian PXE Preseeding: Can I clone my existing Debian system instead of using the Internet?
I'm currently working on PXE booting 10 or so machines to install Debian on them over the network from a centralized DHCP + TFTP server. I'm using the TFTP server to serve the Debian netboot image to ...
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Is it possible to run any distro from RAM from within an .iso saved on an NTFS file system?
Running entirely from RAM been done on various distros such as Slax, DamnSmallLinux, and newer Ubuntu versions, and since I have 8GB it seems reasonable that I could run many distros entirely from RAM ...
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Installing from mounted iso located on USB-HDD
I formatted my ~200GB HDD with RMPrepUSB to FAT32 and with syslinux bootloader.
Used XBoot to "Create USB" with debian-6.0.6-amd64-netinst.iso inside.
In linux.cfg it shows up as:
### MENU START
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What happens with /etc/fstab when using an initramfs?
I have a simple embedded setup as follows: x86 target, kernel and root file system built using buildroot. Syslinux is the bootloader configured to boot with an initramfs which points to a .cpio file ...
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Missing operating system
Extlinux keeps saying Missing Operating System and I don't know what to do. I tried installing the Master Boot Record but it says Missing Operating System too. I have extlinux installed on my sd card.
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How to put syslinux on an sd card
I would like to know how to put syslinux on my sd card and I have tried using extlinux. However, I keep getting the message Missing Operating System. Please help me.
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How to put isolinux on an sd card
Hey I need to put the isolinux bootloader on an sd card but how do I properly do that?
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syslinux / vesamenu.c32 - using highest available screen resolution?
I was wondering if there was a way to use the highest available resolution in the syslinux.cfg file?
I know i can do:
MENU RESOLUTION 1024 768
but without knowing available resolutions beforehand, ...
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How can I get from menu.lst to syslinux.cfg?
Problem
I'm creating a bootable iso from a YUMI USB drive to burn on DVD's for friends. More info here.
I took the grldr and menu.lst from a bootable XBoot iso, but now I'm trying to figure out a ...
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How to configure Syslinux to load the kernel images from a different partition or disk?
I'm running Archlinux using Syslinux as a bootloader. Right now the kernel image and initramfs are in /boot and all of the Syslinux stuff (configuration file and modules) are in /boot/syslinux.
I'm ...
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Syslinux , what does '--' do?
What does the '--' do in a normal syslinux config ? I used to see "quiet" after that , but don't know why.
Here's an example from Ubuntu 12.04:
label install
menu label ^Install
menu default
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How do I configure syslinux to boot immediately
I'm tweaking a Debian live system (built with live-build), and I want it to boot straight into the system from syslinux — no menu, no timeout. According to the syslinux documentation, a timeout value ...
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Can I use pxelinux to boot from an ISOs over the network?
I have a server which hosts mirrors for FreeBSD, CentOS and Scientific Linux. It includes .iso files.
Is it possible to use pxelinux to boot this ISO over the network? Must I use gPXE or iPXE ...
