Re: [Etherboot-developers] How to build USB key image for old etherboot 5.4.2 image

H.P.A,

I still had hard time to boot the etherboot image from a USB flash. I 
formatted the USB flash (2G, too big?) to FAT, then copied the syslinux 
and mydriver.zlilo to the USB flash. I always got disk error when system 
tried to boot the USB flash. I tried different syslinux from a few 
different Linux systems (both 32 and 64 bit). I even copied the syslinux 
from the system's local disk, but I still got the same error message. 
Anything I did wrong might cause this?

I also download the syslinux-3.60.zip from the kernel.org. I copied the 
syslinux from mtools/syslinux to the USB flash, and I still got the same 
disk error message. I also tried a few different systems.

Thanks,
Joyce



H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Joyce Yu - System Software wrote:
>   
>>> You don't need anything extra, though.  Just put syslinux on your USB
>>> key, and build a .zlilo image.
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
>> Any size limitation of the USB flash drive? Where is the best place to
>> get the syslinux, /usr/lib/syslinux in a Linux system or get it from
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux?
>>
>>     
>
> /usr/[s]bin/syslinux should be the normal location.  Getting the newest
> one from kernel.org is probably the best, since some distributions only
> upgrade syslinux rarely.
>
> Use a FAT filesystem (syslinux) or ext2/ext3 (extlinux).
>
> 	-hpa
>   


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