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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:52 pm 
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I purchased the Server Suite v1.x and created CD-ROMs from the NL_PLUS.ISO and NL_PUSB.ISO images. I have used the first one successfully for a few months, booting from the CD and saving data to a floppy disk.

Now, I'm trying to create a bootable USB Flash drive using the utility on the NASLite+ USB CD-ROM. I tried both formatting options (superfloppy and partitioned). The second option went nowhere -- I assume it just wasn't recognized by the BIOS.

The superfloppy version fared slightly better, but when the system tries to boot from the USB drive (with no CD nor floppy in their respective drives), it prints out the following:
Code:
SYSLINUX 2.06 2003-08-22  Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin
Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg.

with the last message repeated for a total of six occurrences.

Reading the USB drive from Windows, syslink.cfg contains

Code:
TIMEOUT 100
PROMPT 0
DEFAULT NASLite

LABEL NASLite
  KERNEL NASLite.01
  APPEND rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02
  DISPLAY naslite.msg

On the USB drive (64MB), the files and their sizes are

Code:
ldlinux.sys        7,856
naslite.01     1,106,952
naslite.02     1,326,946
naslite.msg          260
naslite.scr       14,389
syslinux.cfg         139


Any ideas??


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:56 pm 
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This is an MBR problem. I had the same issue using an ASUS board. NASLite+ for USB Flash v1.1, available now, uses a modified MBR so compatibility should be greatly improved. More USB Flash Disks should work with more boards, especially when using the partition format (Option 2).


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:25 pm 
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Thanks -- that did it -- in particular, partition format.

Thanks again for your help.


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