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 records out 209715200 bytes (210 MB, 200 MiB) copied, 0.190117 s, 1.1 GB/s $ mkfs.ext2 test.img mke2fs …
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/wiki/index.php?title=Install#UEFI I have installed these packages: syslinux syslinux-common isolinux syslinux-efi I flowed the instructions to create legacy (non-UEFI) bootable CD with ISOLINUX, and this is …
Where is syslinux package for 20.10? I’m working with subiquity, Ubuntu Base, and PXE stuff. And for one of the steps I use syslinux. On 20.04.1 Live Server install, i just do early command apt-get install -y syslinux Which works. But doing same on 20.10 installer crashes installer with message that package is missing. I …
Multiple Linux Installation – managing shared ESP and Bootable options I have installed Manjaro alongside BlackArch. BlackArch has its bootloader in /boot which is a separate partition. Manjaro has three partitions, one for root(/), one for /boot, and one for /boot/efi. Now, let’s say I want to install Fedora. Will there be any problem if …
Making a UEFI-bootable image with mkisofs and -eltorito-boot efiboot.img I am trying to convert an existing custom USB ISO installer image that presently boots via BIOS to one that boots via UEFI. I use mkisofs and isohybrid to make the ISO, and it boots via ISOLINUX. I know I’m supposed to use the -eltorito-alt-boot -eltorito-platform …
How do I install syslinux/extlinux to a disk image file without requiring root privileges I have built a home-grown Linux distribution, and I can make the complete disk image file as a non-root user with one exception — installing the boot loader. I’m using syslinux (actually extlinux), and to install it I have to loop-back …
Is it possible to run any distro from RAM from within an .iso saved on an NTFS file system? Running entirely from RAM been done on various distros such as Slax, DamnSmallLinux, and newer Ubuntu versions, and since I have 8GB it seems reasonable that I could run many distros entirely from RAM (as long …
Syslinux , what does '–' do? What does the ‘–‘ do in a normal syslinux config ? I used to see “quiet” after that , but don’t know why. Here’s an example from Ubuntu 12.04: label install menu label ^Install menu default kernel ubuntu-installer/amd64/linux append vga=788 initrd=ubuntu-installer/amd64/initrd.gz — quiet Asked By: daisy || Source Many …
How do I configure syslinux to boot immediately I’m tweaking a Debian live system (built with live-build), and I want it to boot straight into the system from syslinux — no menu, no timeout. According to the syslinux documentation, a timeout value of 0 means that the timeout is disabled, ie. it won’t boot at …
