Mailing List Archive: Trouble booting contents of an iso with the bootsect.bin included.

Trouble booting contents of an iso with the bootsect.bin included.

Jun 10, 2007, 6:25 AM

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Hello, I am trying to boot the extracted contents of an iso, on a usb stick,
using the bootsect.bin included in the iso. Yet it will not work. the
bootsect.bin file is in the root of the usb drive, as well as syslinux's cfg
file. Here is what the cfg looks like

PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 100
DEFAULT main

LABEL main
BOOT /bootsect.bin
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Re: Trouble booting contents of an iso with the bootsect.bin included. [ In reply to ]

hpa at zytor

Jun 10, 2007, 11:35 AM

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Karch wrote:
> Hello, I am trying to boot the extracted contents of an iso, on a usb stick,
> using the bootsect.bin included in the iso. Yet it will not work. the
> bootsect.bin file is in the root of the usb drive, as well as syslinux's cfg
> file. Here is what the cfg looks like
>

A "bootsector" from a CD-ROM is totally different from a disk boot
sector. It will never work.

-hpa

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Re: Trouble booting contents of an iso with the bootsect.bin included. [ In reply to ]

dimeneira at gmail

Jun 10, 2007, 2:49 PM

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So how would u reccomend taking an iso and unpacking it and then making it
bootable on usb?

On 6/10/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> Karch wrote:
> > Hello, I am trying to boot the extracted contents of an iso, on a usb
> stick,
> > using the bootsect.bin included in the iso. Yet it will not work. the
> > bootsect.bin file is in the root of the usb drive, as well as syslinux's
> cfg
> > file. Here is what the cfg looks like
> >
>
> A "bootsector" from a CD-ROM is totally different from a disk boot
> sector. It will never work.
>
> -hpa
>
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