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[lordcris]

Hello,
I'm using gentoo-x64

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but unetbootin does not work. I've tried to compile it myself ( no errors whatsoever ) but when i try and boot from the usb drive i get "this is not a bootable floppy ... " error.If i try the static executable from your home page, everything works ok.I've tried to compare the usb resulting from the two programs.The static executable creates one file called ldlinux.sys which the compiled version does not.
Any tips?

[Icecube]

ldlinux.sys is a file created by the Syslinux installer.
See my signature for getting Syslinux.

[lordcris]

ldlinux.sys is a file created by the Syslinux installer.
See my signature for getting Syslinux.

i have sys-boot/syslinux-3.83 installed.
Is it normal than one version ( the not working one ) does not create this file?
Can i run the program in a "debug" mode and compare the results?

[Icecube]

I never really used Netbootin, but I guess, I know where your problem is situated.

Do:

which syslinux

which extlinux

Change the syslinuxcommand and extlinuxcommand paths accordingly to that output (below #ifdef NOSTATIC) in file unetbootin.cpp:

blkidcommand = "/sbin/blkid";

	locatecommand("mtools", tr("USB Drive"), "mtools");

		syslinuxcommand = "/usr/bin/ubnsylnx";

		extlinuxcommand = "/usr/bin/ubnexlnx";

	#ifdef NOSTATIC

		syslinuxcommand = "/usr/bin/syslinux";

		extlinuxcommand = "/usr/bin/extlinux";

	#endif

If this is the problem, hopefully the Unetbootin developer fixes this.

[lordcris]

[codebox]which syslinux extlinux /usr/bin/syslinux /sbin/extlinux [/codebox] yes, there was a problem with the path of extlinux . i fixed it but unfortunately without result. it still does not create ldlinux.sys [codebox]cris@lordcris /media/disk $ ll -la total 9988 drwxrwxrwx 2 cris root 8192 1970-01-01 01:00 . -rwxr-xr-x 1 cris root 2339712 2009-11-04 16:20 ubnkern -rwxr-xr-x 1 cris root 156944 2009-11-04 16:20 vesamenu.c32-rwxr-xr-x 1 cris root 7692817 2009-11-04 16:20 ubninit-rwxr-xr-x 1 cris root 159 2009-11-04 16:20 syslinux.cfg drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-11-04 16:25 .. [/codebox] this is for kubuntu 8.10 netinstall_x64

[Icecube]

There are 2 versions of the SYSLINUX installer:

• a standalone version (does need root rights): /linux/syslinux
• a version that requires mtools (doesn't need root rights): /mtools/syslinux

If you have the standalone version, you need to run Unetbootin with root rights (or build the mtools version).

[lordcris]

There are 2 versions of the SYSLINUX installer:

• a standalone version (does need root rights): /linux/syslinux
• a version that requires mtools (doesn't need root rights): /mtools/syslinux

If you have the standalone version, you need to run Unetbootin with root rights (or build the mtools version).

i run the program as root.