Creating the boot disc happens without error, but upon booting the newly created disc, errors about missing COM32 modules appear. After many failed attempts to use unetbootin, I finally tried downgrading syslinux to 4.06 and suddenly everything magically worked! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge >=sys-boot/syslinux-5.00 2. Use unetbootin to create a USB boot disc. 3. Boot it. Actual Results: Missing COM32 modules. Expected Results: Boot menu. 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Can you name the missing COM32 modules? Can you verify with # LD_LIBRARY_PATH="." ldd menu.c32 or similar command that the modules needed for dynamic linking are installed?
Yeah, sorry, I should have named them in the first place: libutil.c32 and menu.c32. When I run that ldd test, does it matter a) which version of syslinux I have installed and b) what my current working directory is?
Does 584 have the same problem? Otherwise you'd be mixing the stable and unstable branch here.
Run it from the directory where the .c32 files were copied to. Only >=syslinux-5 uses the ELF binary format, so ldd will not work on earlier versions.
Same problem here: sys-boot/unetbootin-585 does not work with sys-boot/syslinux-5.10, but with sys-boot/syslinux-4.07 it works fine.
I have changed the dependency to <sys-boot/syslinux-5 but obviously that does not fix the issue...
I'm still waiting for a proper reply on my question in comment #1.
Not wanting to backgrade sys-boot/syslinux for various reasons, I tested this out. Upon boot syslinux complained about a missing "vesamenu.c32" but I was able to mess around with the boot options (pentoo0 using tab-complete) and it booted fine. It appears that unetbootin is missing installing some modules for newer versions of syslinux, but not unmitigably so.
I found this patch at openmamba's page: http://www.openmamba.org/showfile.html?file=/pub/openmamba/milestone3/patches/unetbootin-584-syslinux-5.patch Seems to install libtuil.c32 which is the only dependence for menu.c32
(In reply to Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera from comment #9) > I found this patch at openmamba's page: > http://www.openmamba.org/showfile.html?file=/pub/openmamba/milestone3/ > patches/unetbootin-584-syslinux-5.patch Seems to install libtuil.c32 which > is the only dependence for menu.c32 Oddly enough that seems to have been already applied in some form in unetbootin-608. Let's test that, shall we?
Yup, I'll test it next time I have to prepare a pendrive, hopefully by next week.
Jer I have tested with 608 and current stable syslinux to burn a xubuntu .iso So according to my tests you can remove the <sys-boot/syslinux-5.00 dependency.
Thanks for testing. Fixed.
You are get ahead of yourself :-( unetbootin-608 + syslinux-5.10 result in error "failed to load com32 file menu.c32" when attempt to load from usb-stick (Calculate Linux). unetbootin-608 + syslinux-4.07 work properly in the same conditions.
(In reply to UlvHare from comment #14) > You are get ahead of yourself :-( > unetbootin-608 + syslinux-5.10 result in error "failed to load com32 file > menu.c32" when attempt to load from usb-stick (Calculate Linux). > unetbootin-608 + syslinux-4.07 work properly in the same conditions. Is there a menu.c32 file at all on the pendrive? Does /usr/share/syslinux/menu.c32 exist on your system? Is the stick formatted with fat32? I tested with xubuntu and Gentoo (bboth x86 and amd64) and all of them worked as they should.
It would also be helpful to know which CD are you using and with which steps.
