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

Joyce Yu wrote:
> 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.

That won't help.  You need to actually run it with:

	syslinux /dev/...

... where /dev/... is the appropriate device.  After syslinux loads, 
verify the proper version is running by looking at the copyright banner 
or pressing Ctrl-V at the boot: prompt.

	-hpa

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