USB booting :: bootfloppy-usb.img file question
I am trying to understand booting from USB to get it to work for my CompactFlash card.
On the most recent (DSL 2.0?) bootfloppy-usb.img there is a file whose name is ' (apostrophe). It looks a lot like syslinux.cfg. How is this file used? Or is it an inadvertent inclusion?
Thank you for helping me learn about the DSL boot process.
- TSloth
I think that it is somehow accidentally created during the USB install script process.
At some point there is a "sed" command that adds the frugal cheatcode to the syslinux.cfg append statements.
Around this time, the
'
file gets created. I don't know why.
But since it doesn't hurt anything, I never bothered to investigate further.
Thanks for the reply, cbagger01.
The ' file is actually in bootfloppy-usb.img.
It gets copied to the usb device in these lines:
mkdir boot
mount bootfloppy-usb.img boot -t vfat -o loop
...
cp boot/* /mnt/pendrive
So I gather that the answer is it's not a needed file? Just wondered if it served some special purpose.
-TSloth
I don't think that it is needed.
I suppose there is one way to find out.
Rename the file and then try to boot.
If it doesn't work, change it back to the original name.
original here.