bootfloppy-usb.img file question

Forum: USB booting
Topic: bootfloppy-usb.img file question
started by: TSloth

Posted by TSloth on Dec. 02 2005,23:34

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

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 03 2005,05:15

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.

Posted by TSloth on Dec. 03 2005,17:04

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

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 05 2005,05:41

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.