Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:24:56 -0400 From: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux Message-ID: <CAHzLAVHvHSGaMDDhbx3YBNsvDmkSXrEYmpiAdOEcSgn1z3o8mQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F3874B1D-0538-4205-9A3A-D0299C7A0A8A@gsoft.com.au> References: <F3874B1D-0538-4205-9A3A-D0299C7A0A8A@gsoft.com.au>
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> 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
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