Never mind... I answered my own question... LBA!!!!!! I had the partition type as W95 FAT32 in fact I should have had W95 FAT32 (LBA) all sorted now.
Sorry for the waste or bytes ;) Cheers Adam -----Original Message----- From: ads...@genis-x.com [mailto:ads...@genis-x.com] Sent: Friday, 23 March 2012 1:26 PM To: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [leaf-user] syslinux issues from hdsupp.lrp Hi guys, I went to setup a "remote" box and have hit a few snags that I need some guidance on, I "used" to be able to do this but I've either forgotten a step or something isn't right. Basically I have a machine that has a CDROM and a single 80GB SATA drive in it. I boot the machine from CD (using Bering-uClibc_4.2_i686_isolinux_vga.iso). Mount the CDROM and apkg -i hdsupp and mtools (syslinux REQUIRES mcopy). fdisk /dev/sda create a primary partition (512MB in size) set it active and change it to a FAT32 (W95). write it out , then issue an mdev -s to have the partition appear. firewall# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa72e66aa Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 66 530113+ b W95 FAT32 Then the bit that doesn't work firewall# syslinux /dev/sda1 Big disks not supported on this architecture syslinux: failed to create ldlinux.sys I can't actually find any notes on the Big disks error. Does anyone have an idea? Should I be checking the BIOS support for SATA? I'm just not sure where to go from here. firewall# syslinux --version syslinux 4.03 Copyright 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al Cheers in advance Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
