FS#5806 - current archboot/mksyslinux doesn't create bootable drives
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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
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
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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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This task depends upon
I'm going download the tarball for syslinux and see if the binaries in that don't work...