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FS#5806 - current archboot/mksyslinux doesn't create bootable drives

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Friday, 10 November 2006, 03:06 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 10 November 2006, 09:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When used with archboot, the current version of mksyslinux appears to install fine on a USB drive. However, when attempting to boot from said drive, the user will be greeted by a "missing operating system" (or similar) BIOS message, and boot will not occur. My best guess is that there's something wrong with mbr.bin, perhaps corruption - syslinux doesn't even start, and the lack of error messages when running mksyslinux makes me think that the syslinux binary is probably the right one.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Friday, 10 November 2006, 17:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 10 November 2006, 15:22 GMT
probably your bios is not supporting booting from usb, not all bioses work correct and usb booting has no standard.
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Friday, 10 November 2006, 15:35 GMT
My BIOS definitely supports booting from USB, I have done this before; I'm also using the same partition layout on the same USB stick. After reinstalling the Arch install stuff on it with the latest version of Syslinux, it became unbootable.Two reformats and reinstalls later, it is still unbootable.It is readable, though, and all the right stuff seems to be on it.

I'm going download the tarball for syslinux and see if the binaries in that don't work...
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Friday, 10 November 2006, 16:53 GMT
Okay, I've got this nixed, I think. Not sure what it was, maybe bad blocks on my USB stick? Sorry about wasting your time, anyway...

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