attempting to build harvey fails because there is no syslinux script in the utils folder about harvey

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I'm guessing you're following the instructions here: https://github.com/Harvey-OS/harvey/wiki/Booting-Harvey-on-real-hardware-II-(USB) ?
These instructions don't get tested often as most of us netboot harvey these days.

The syslinux command is a Go program that's installed from harvey-os.org/cmd/syslinux into $HARVEY/linux_amd64/bin. It works if you run it from util directory, but we need to fix both the wiki instructions and how syslinux works.

yes I was following those instructions, if I installed the syslinux Go program would i then be able to build a bootable harvey USB?

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@Lexi-kelly I think that syslinux program should be deleted. Try the util/build-img.sh script instead from PR #1076.

doesn't the build-img script only build a qemu image? i'm looking to make a bootable usb image, is there a way i could change the script to do that or convert the qemu image to a bootable usb?

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@Lexi-kelly If you run ./util/build-img.sh -f raw it'll produce a raw image instead of a qcow2. Then you can copy it to your usb stick.

thank you for your help with this issue. I was just a bit confused due to the documentation mentioning the syslinux script, i'm guessing the build-img script is basically the same as the syslinux script just with a different name?

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thank you for your help with this issue. I was just a bit confused due to the documentation mentioning the syslinux script, i'm guessing the build-img script is basically the same as the syslinux script just with a different name?

Yeah, they do pretty much the same thing as far as I understand but implemented very differently. The build-img.sh script uses guestfish which mean it doesn't require root access and it'll also more portable since it doesn't depend on linux kernel's nbd module.