twinkie Posted April 30, 2016 Share #1 Posted April 30, 2016 Hello, i would like to modify syslinux.cfg and add menu to be able have option to boot Windows 10/7 from another disk on xpenoboot. The problem is that syslinux need same version of chain.c32 and libcom32.c32 to load. On original distribution of xpenoboot those library files are missing. I am unable to identify which version of syslinux is used on xpenoboot. I mean to add something like this label Windows menu label Windows 10 MENU INDENT 1 COM32 chain.c32 fs ntldr=/bootmgr Thanks for any advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBK Posted April 30, 2016 Share #2 Posted April 30, 2016 You could get the latest syslinux version src code, compile it and make a new iso or img based on the files from a xpenoboot release (zimage and isolinux.cfg). After compiling the source the files you will need to copy to your work dir are isolinux.bin, ldlinux.c32, libutil.c32, menu.c32, chain.c32 and libcom32.c32. The command to build iso is: mkisofs -o new_iso_with_windows_boot.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -input-charset utf-8 path_to_folder/with_xpeno_and/above_mentioned_files/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkie Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share #3 Posted May 1, 2016 Thank you for quick reply but I am not as good in those things. It means install linux first somewhere, download all the compilers. Sounds like hours of work and I basically need just a few files you mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBK Posted May 1, 2016 Share #4 Posted May 1, 2016 You need some sort of linux distro to build the iso. I unfortunately can not make the iso for you, since I am on a really low bandwidth sat connection. If you use a debian or debian derived (ubuntu..) distro then installing these packages should suffice: apt-get install libc6-i386 build-essentials libncurses5-dev nasm uuid-dev Afterwards download the src code for syslinux, extract, open a terminal and use this command to compile the code: make -C path/to/extracted/source/ Afterwards find the files you need in the bios folder and its sub-folders, copy them to a work folder and use the command I wrote in my previous post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbv3000 Posted May 8, 2016 Share #5 Posted May 8, 2016 probably a dumb suggestion, but have you tried a multi boot tool like yumi? http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multi ... b-creator/ windows boot from first hdd or xpe as a loaded distro, just by adding the xpe iso to the library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkie Posted June 9, 2016 Author Share #6 Posted June 9, 2016 I solved it by downloading latest binary from syslinux and then throw away binary on usb and created completely new usb from binaries on distribution and then transfereed zImage and syconfig.cfg. Also added config lines to boot windows LABEL boot_hd1 MENU LABEL HD1 Windows COM32 chain.c32 APPEND hd1 LABEL boot_hd2 MENU LABEL HD2 Windows COM32 chain.c32 APPEND hd2 LABEL boot_hd3 MENU LABEL HD3 Windows COM32 chain.c32 APPEND hd3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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