Questions tagged [syslinux]
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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Are low resolutions possible in syslinux?
I am building an arcade machine with a 15KHz CRT and Batocera and I need to get syslinux to display in 320x240 because a CRT can only do up to 240p or 480i. Is it possible to do interlacing or 320x240 ...
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syslinux creating unexpected partitions on disk image
I'm encountering some odd behavior while trying to install a bootloader on a disk image. Here's the process I followed:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img status=progress bs=200M count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 ...
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syslinux UEFI boot: automatically select boot option based on HW identifier
I am booting from USB media, and I am using syslinux EFI boot.
I am booting the same media on 2 different laptops, and I have 2 menu options in syslinux.cfg, one for each laptop.
Currently, I have to ...
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Working system, blank screen
Setup
Partitions:
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
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Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 51199 49152 24M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 51200 204799 153600 75M 83 ...
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create a UEFI bootable CD with ISOLINUX
How can I create a UEFI bootable CD ?
ISOLINUX has no mention of UEFI:
https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=ISOLINUX
while SYSLINUX does, but specific to syslinux:
https://wiki.syslinux.org/...
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The PC is stucked in bios with my extlinux setup
My disk has 2 OS, Alpine and Debian, and a /home in a separated partition.
The bootloader is grub from Debian installed in the MBR (bios).
I want to use Alpine and its extlinux bootloader so I can ...
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syslinux bootloader unable to find the initrd.img for a custom bootable image made via Docker Containers
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As a side project, I am trying to use Hashicorp Packer along with Docker to create Bootable disk Images from Docker Containers.
Hashicorp Packer generally takes the responsibility of ...
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Create bootable syslinux USB on UEFI
We use a Centos 8 machine to create syslinux bootable USB installers for our product. The created USB now supports only target machines with BIOS (or with CSM mode turned on) but we need to update it ...
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Issues running an automatic and unattended clonezilla restore drive
When I try to run an automated and unattended restore via Clonezilla it returns the following error:
Now run "ocs_prerun": mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt...
Mount: /mnt: special device /dev/sdb2 does ...
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Load Memdisk with linux16 / initrd16 from Grub2 UEFI
I need to load the Memdisk kernel from Grub2 in UEFI mode.
I don't know if this is possible, but I am getting an unexpected unidentified error.
I would like to know if it is possible and if so how to ...
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Custom Build - Unable to mount filesystem
So I'm building a custom Linux-based OS, and I chose to run it as a RAM disk (initramfs). Unfortunately, I keep getting a Kernel Panic during boot.
RAMDISK: gzip image found at block 0
using ...
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How to keep error messages on screen with syslinux
I am making the assumption that I'm using syslinux because I have a syslinux.cfg file present on my USB boot disk.
The configuration of syslinux is the following:
UI /linux/boot/vesamenu.c32
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syslinux boot configuration : boots to reboot
Installing arch to old HP Desktop (HPE-341f, AMD) with a small SSD for system and some other drives. I have installed syslinux and followed instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/syslinux.
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Select alternate boot media from bootloader?
If I'm booting from USB, is it possible to edit SYSLINUX menus to select a distribution on an internal hd? I don't mean deferring to the internal boot partition, but selecting an internal partition ...
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syslinux output duplicated in QEMU serial console
Any idea why syslinux output is duplicated in QEMU serial console?
SeaBIOS (version rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org)
iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:03.0 CA00 PCI2.10 PnP PMM+3FF8F290+3FEEF290 ...
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