Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 reiserfs 19G 17G 2.5G 87% /
/dev/sda4 reiserfs 23G 1.4G 22G 6% /storage
/dev/sda3 ext3 14G 509M 13G 4% /mnt/lfs
/dev/sdb1 vfat 3.8G 9.1M 3.8G 1% /mnt/usb
Disk /dev/sdd: 16.0 GB, 16039018496 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 15296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x380e2f10
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 15296 15663088 b W95 FAT32
#!/bin/bash
URL="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-4.05.tar.gz"
FILE_NAME=$(basename ${URL})
DIR_NAME=$(echo ${FILE_NAME%.tar.?z*})
OUTPUT_DIR="/mnt/usb/syslinux"
cd /usr/src
wget -c ${URL}
tar xf ${FILE_NAME}
cd ${DIR_NAME}
mkdir -p ${OUTPUT_DIR}
find . -iname ldlinux.sys -exec cp {} ${OUTPUT_DIR} \;
find . -iname mbr.bin -exec cp {} ${OUTPUT_DIR} \;
find . -iname menu.c32 -exec cp {} ${OUTPUT_DIR} \;
find . -iname vesamenu.c32 -exec cp {} ${OUTPUT_DIR} \;
find ./linux/ -iname syslinux -exec cp {} ${OUTPUT_DIR} \;
tree ${OUTPUT_DIR}
/mnt/usb/
|-- boot
| |-- initrd.img-2.6.28.4
| |-- vmlinuz-2.6.28.4
| |-- vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp
| `-- vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.27.7-smp
|-- install.sh
`-- syslinux
|-- ldlinux.sys
|-- menu.c32
|-- syslinux
|-- syslinux.cfg
`-- vesamenu.c32
2 directories, 10 files
PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 100
DEFAULT /syslinux/menu.c32
MENU TITLE SysLinux Bootloader
LABEL S120
MENU LABEL Slackware 12.0
MENU DEFAULT
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp
APPEND ro root=/dev/sda2
LABEL S122
MENU LABEL Slackware 12.2
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.27.7-smp
APPEND ro root=/dev/sda2
LABEL DB50
MENU LABEL Debian 5.0 - kernel 2.6.28.4
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28.4
APPEND root=/dev/sda2 ro all_generic_ide initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.28.4
#!/bin/bash
TARGET=/dev/sdd1
MBR=/dev/sdd
NUM=1
echo; echo
echo "Warning! This installer will setup "syslinux" boot loader on disk $TARGET"
echo "Warning! Master boot record (MBR) of $MBR will be overwritten."
echo
echo "Press Enter to continue, or Ctrl+C to abort..."
read junk
echo
echo "*** Flushing filesystem buffers, this may take a while..."
sync
echo "*** Setting up MBR on $MBR..."
lilo -S /dev/null -M $MBR ext
echo "*** Activating partition $TARGET..."
lilo -S /dev/null -A $MBR $NUM
echo "*** Replacing lilo with syslinux on $MBR..."
cat ./syslinux/mbr.bin > $MBR
echo "*** Setting up boot record for $TARGET..."
./syslinux/syslinux -id syslinux $TARGET
http://syslinux.zytor.com/
http://www.slax.org/
BY: Pejman Moghadam
TAG: syslinux, boot-loader, usb
DATE: 2012-05-14 09:55:52