Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: g.fink@gmx.net (Gernot Fink) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Syslinux.cfg not found Date: 12 May 2011 19:10:00 GMT Lines: 17 Sender: garfield@gmx.net Message-ID: <932pk8Fn51U1@mid.individual.net> References: <932bi8F6nmU1@mid.individual.net> <3uit98-uo9.ln1@dougshost.douglaidlaw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: individual.net kKZ4ON+Z7rBVYsG2s21VsgkJobN3S/3zb57nH/gBNQhqO9gA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:3FDxxQBqDvKSDooleYpFtuIypmo= X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.setup:364 In article <3uit98-uo9.ln1@dougshost.douglaidlaw.net>, Doug Laidlaw writes: > Gernot Fink wrote: > > But the BIOS isn't the trouble. That much works O.K. syslinux starts, but > can't find a config file then I am prompted for an image to boot. > Try it. Maybe your old Bios say "A stick kant bever be so big" or "why load more blocks then a floppy has" or "never saw a bootdevice with such a big FAT" or "windows look different on such a big device" Most time USB-Boot fails depend the BIOS. -- MFG Gernot