Booting different partitions on a usb drive with syslinux
Hello,
I have an 8gb usb flash drive that I had high aspirations of using for a recovery/install/messing around multipurpose drive.
fdisk shows:
Code:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
[sudo] password for woodnt:
Disk /dev/sdb: 8036 MB, 8036285952 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 977 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002815d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 65 522081 b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 66 977 7325640 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 913 977 522081 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 * 66 161 771057 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb7 162 249 706828+ b W95 FAT32
I have used unetbootin to install a Linux mint LXDE liveCD iso which works great on sdb6
On sdb7, I have a regular Linux mint 64 bit liveCD iso.
It will boot into the LXDE environment no problem.
What I'm wanting to do is figure out how to "daisy-chain" the syslinux boot menu to the linux mint 64bit livecd's isolinux.cfg menu.
I see in syslinux, there is a syntax that will allow you to use a different .cfg file as so:
Code:
LABEL othermenu
MENU LABEL Another Menu
KERNEL menu.c32
APPEND othermenu.conf
However, it will be on a different partition. I can't find a way to reference partitions from within syslinux .cfg syntax.
Can anyone help? Do I need to abandon syslinux and try something else? If so what?
Yours,
Narnie
below is the current syslinux.cfg file with an example of what I'm trying to do at the end (which I know won't work), but I need it to go to the filesystem on another partition:
Code:
default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
menu title UNetbootin
timeout 100
label unetbootindefault
menu label Default
kernel /ubnkern
append initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
label ubnentry0
menu label Start Linux Mint LXDE
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
label ubnentry1
menu label Start Linux Mint LXDE (compatibility mode)
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper xforcevesa ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw noapic noapci nosplash irqpoll --
label ubnentry2
menu label Check the integrity of the CD
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=/casper/initrd.lz boot=casper integrity-check quiet splash --
label ubnentry3
menu label Memory Test
kernel /isolinux/memtest
append initrd=/ubninit
label ubnentry4
menu label Boot from local drive
kernel /ubnkern
append initrd=/ubninit
label ubnentry5
menu label Boot Linux Mint 64 bit
kernel /isolinux/vesamenu.c32
append isolinux/isolinux.cfg root=/dev/sdb7/
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