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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2011-07-12

Posts: 100

Boot to USB

I'm want my syslinux bootloader to be able to boot a (bootable) USB,
when the bootloader is started from a HDD so that it can use TrueCrypt encrypted partitions.

I'm using syslinux, and I don't want to switch to grub, because I prefer syslinux.

When syslinux was installed, syslinux.cfg contained an commented setup from chainloading Windows:

LABEL windows
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd0 0

Changing "APPEND hd0 0" to "APPEND hd0 1" will boot /dev/sda1
"APPEND hd0 0" should boot the MBR code in /dev/sda.

But if I have one USB with a bootable MBR in my computer, and the UUID is unknown,
how do I make syslinux boot it? I've read that fd0 0 should do it, but it does not appear to work.

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djgera

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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina

Registered: 2008-12-24

Posts: 723

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Re: Boot to USB

Syslinux does not support "boot to usb" or "boot to cdrom" or "boot to any-other-thing-than-BIOS-not-report-as-IDE-HDD-or-as-FDD".

You need to chainload a bootmanager like PLoP[#1].

[#1] http://www.plop.at/