Unhumanje

Yes - it works on other laptops. I'm making some progress though - I now believe that it is indeed a BIOS problem, but not with syslinux, but with the way the flash drives are formatted - logical/primary and actually in which sector the syslinux.cfg and other menu files are written at... I did a complete flash drive wipe - DDoD 5220.22.-M (3 passes) - formatted to fat32 primary - and manually moved the files required, but moved syslinux.cfg and the menu files first - and now it booted ... Three things to consider: 1) Full wipe 2) Must be a PRIMARY partition, formatted in fat32(obvious) 3) The required syslinux/multiboot files must be written in very early - in one of the first sectors Not really sure how this works, but as said, without doing this, the flash drive works on other PC's, but not on this one (so this BIOS).

I will try this out, but that doesn't solve my problem entirely. This way I can only have 1 OS per pendrive, and my initial intentions were to have several OSes and Tools on a single pendrive, by using XBoot for example (I've tried YUMI as well). What lead me to believe that the BIOS is the problem is that: 1) Once the drive is successfully populated with tools/OSes - qemu runs it under windows and it shows the syslinux bootloader and everything works. However, while running physically - BIOS returns Boot error. 2) A few other people with the same laptop (and bios) reporting similar problems. Effectively, I think there is some incompatibility between the BIOS and Syslinux

I have a few flash drives - I've tried installing a few different OS-es or tools via unetbootin and XBOOT which use syslinux as bootloader, and it never works. BIOS returns Boot Error. However, anything with a GRUB boot loader works I haven't yet discovered how to fix this.

Is there a way to fix the syslinux boot error with this (gx740)? Also this 5 posts limit is annoying :/