From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 31 14:21:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C04F81 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yerenkow@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vb0-x234.google.com (mail-vb0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c02::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E328124DA for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:21:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f52.google.com with SMTP id f12so748635vbg.39 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:21:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=tfKILw/pRI2zki15eJqGJSn/3UW/J6QcpZeVOQfw4c8=; b=b0b/z1RW+3EashIA7e7FQkL3qBpyipko0GDw34l0G+GVzv+Ia6SFmDIbRNatoPsYCq O1/BGjqJKjF/u44vYGl6HKiuzw1UEmS42pLlBLLxl7MxZ6ME2hAdVA+0QK9cSidfhvIP gacDKqbj0DV7pVP1Rpp55UalmbY2ZdvzlZf2ucFRru8OlBKzaIxbi2ehZxI68JDGMD7M TqqPOULm4Ep4FtRQEqcAmJNP1P7mvU/1sB2+m3VYuDoglXYJiKHOzaMG+/JucA6+VQR+ vySBR8IWkDSsyCmSk/FINZdczkzfrFbSCTCUS/gKZfdNSYG9JEpAsKFtftsJX4BhlVly m3QQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.163.71 with SMTP id yg7mr17753383vdb.110.1375280502905; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.23.7 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:21:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:21:42 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux From: Alexander Yerenkow To: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-stable stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:21:44 -0000 You could see at mine experience long long time ago: http://trac.pcbsd.org/wiki/UsbFatBoot Maybe it's still relevant :) 2013/7/31 Daniel O'Connor > Hi, > I am trying to make a FreeBSD 9.2 hybrid image (ie ISO & USB from the same > file) and as part of that I need to use syslinux. Unfortunately I can't get > Syslinux's mboot.c32 to run the kernel or loader as suggested at > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mboot.c32 - it reports "Invalid > Multiboot image: neither ELF header nor a.out kludge found". > > I suspect I would be able to use memdisk as I have used that in the past > with syslinux (for 7.x) however this was seems a lot cleaner and easier to > generate. > > Has anyone had any success with this? > > Thanks. > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C > > > > > > > -- Regards, Alexander Yerenkow