id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
519	mindi syslinux problem	victor gattegno	Bruno Cornec	"Mindi uses ""syslinux -s"" to make a media bootable, it was working well until Ubuntu 10.04. But, on Ubuntu 10.10 and on Ubuntu 11.04 the version of syslinux is 4.02.

Problem: with syslinux v 4.02, the -s option returns an error, then an USB backup hard disk made by mondoarchive is not bootable.
 

The error can be found in mondoarchive.log :

{{{
syslinux: invalid option -- 's'
syslinux: Unknown option: -s
...
Failed to create USB image.
Boot and data disk images were created.
}}}

And in the root of the USB backup hard disk made by mondoarchive, ldlinux.sys is missing.

A solution is to modify /usr/sbin/mindi by replacing ""syslinux -s"" by ""syslinux --stupid"", and to run mondoarchive after that.

Another solution is to run, after the mondoarchive command (if by example the external USB hard disk is /dev/sdb):
# syslinux --stupid /dev/sdb1

That problem is hopefully corrected in syslinux v 4.03, but Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 don't propose the update.

On Ubuntu 11.10 the version of syslinux is 4.04, so there is no problem with that version.

The shell-script /usr/sbin/mindi should be modified to avoid problem with syslinux version 4.0.2, that version of syslinux can be included in some other GNU/Linux distributions.
"	defect	closed	normal	3.0.1	mindi	2.2.9.7	normal	fixed	syslinux ubuntu