From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 31 14:24:57 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8CDF14F for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:24:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vrwmiller@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-x22c.google.com (mail-oa0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9482E2509 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:24:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id l20so1629721oag.31 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:24:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=6Qj/1+ElIUKDJxRk9YZymKdExm9Knf6r8Z+sxusBvcU=; b=N6HAtlifpmf3D+ZtwOh5b2cgAdEyFhdBnBZqZiGvPxXFKssNkz250h2IcqId4Vrqx9 s9/2dOObKM+NKd3abWOVViFCMo8CcmOSKTrZBqV1AgDBOajVL3nE2x70Q1n43lCjIbx2 d09ImoyVa4RJH++uI6LDjf19rALAXahYj5JDRT/YbgrV5v9D1dvBniP7CBc/IF2G2F1T xbdPq/+tc2NpPpcFyddLLRXkjD1ymVO+EPoWFsJZYAUsSFYtVqTQ2Rp9Zq58EsxJWfA4 CbZqGp3neFrHXP2Mf4FHUhOPjEMpW2K/ij3cePoT5qwhkxm33pL527fAAtRQ+WCaTQg1 CyWA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.43.145.69 with SMTP id jt5mr22178254icc.65.1375280696759; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:24:56 -0700 (PDT) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.71.104 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:24:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:24:56 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Z20b4Ma4PSBfvyxxcWmzRE3LMEI Message-ID: Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux From: Rick Miller To: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 14:24:57 -0000 On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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? I have not worked with Syslinux, but I do load a customized FreeBSD 8.x bootonly ISO via memdisk. I have not done similar with 9.x yet, but anticipate doing so with 9.2-RELEASE. I touch on it briefly in a blog post at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2013/04/11/installing-freebsd-via-cobbler/ if you're interested. -- Take care Rick Miller