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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Debian PXE Preseeding: Can I clone my existing Debian system instead of using the Internet?
I'm currently working on PXE booting 10 or so machines to install Debian on them over the network from a centralized DHCP + TFTP server. I'm using the TFTP server to serve the Debian netboot image to ...
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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 ...
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Can I use pxelinux to boot from an ISOs over the network?
I have a server which hosts mirrors for FreeBSD, CentOS and Scientific Linux. It includes .iso files.
Is it possible to use pxelinux to boot this ISO over the network? Must I use gPXE or iPXE ...
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How to configure Syslinux to load the kernel images from a different partition or disk?
I'm running Archlinux using Syslinux as a bootloader. Right now the kernel image and initramfs are in /boot and all of the Syslinux stuff (configuration file and modules) are in /boot/syslinux.
I'm ...
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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 ...
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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.
UPDATE
Ok, I'll take the one from Ubuntu 12.04's:
label install
menu label ^Install
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Chainload syslinux from grub2 - show syslinux.cfg menu
I am using a Clonezilla live USB disk to reimage systems.
In accordance to what is explained in ...
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Multiboot USB drive using relative paths with Syslinux (or another bootloader)
I want to make a multiboot USB drive with Ubuntu, Backtrack and Mantra-OS on it (all Ubuntu variants as you can see).
Those are the steps I've done:
sudo su
unmount /dev/sdb1 ...
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How can I get from menu.lst to syslinux.cfg?
Problem
I'm creating a bootable iso from a YUMI USB drive to burn on DVD's for friends. More info here.
I took the grldr and menu.lst from a bootable XBoot iso, but now I'm trying to figure out a ...
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Installing from mounted iso located on USB-HDD
I formatted my ~200GB HDD with RMPrepUSB to FAT32 and with syslinux bootloader.
Used XBoot to "Create USB" with debian-6.0.6-amd64-netinst.iso inside.
In linux.cfg it shows up as:
### MENU START
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How to put syslinux on an sd card
I would like to know how to put syslinux on my sd card and I have tried using extlinux. However, I keep getting the message Missing Operating System. Please help me.
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syslinux / vesamenu.c32 - using highest available screen resolution?
I was wondering if there was a way to use the highest available resolution in the syslinux.cfg file?
I know i can do:
MENU RESOLUTION 1024 768
but without knowing available resolutions beforehand, ...
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What happens with /etc/fstab when using an initramfs?
I have a simple embedded setup as follows: x86 target, kernel and root file system built using buildroot. Syslinux is the bootloader configured to boot with an initramfs which points to a .cpio file ...
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Missing operating system
Extlinux keeps saying Missing Operating System and I don't know what to do. I tried installing the Master Boot Record but it says Missing Operating System too. I have extlinux installed on my sd card.
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How to put isolinux on an sd card
Hey I need to put the isolinux bootloader on an sd card but how do I properly do that?
