I need help to get extlinux to work. I am tiring to boot /dev/hda1 with a ext2 file system. I am using extlinux 3.08 and installed it in the /boot directory with "/sbin/extlinux /boot" and set up the mbr with "cat mbr.bin > /dev/hda". The installer reported "/boot device is /dev/hda1". On booting extlinux.sys runs and displays "EXTLINUX 3.08 2005-05-19" but not the copyright message. I discovered that my BIOS was using a different disk geometry than was printed on the disk so I changed the BIOS to use the USER rather than the AUTO setting and set the USER type to C=8894 H=15 S=63 and reinstalled extlinux but no change. I tried using the -S and -H options to force extlinux to use 15 and 63 but still no change. I have tried various combinations of extlinux.conf and no conf file at all but always get the same result. I don't think that extlinux.sys is getting that far. I get the same result from 2 different machines with different BIOS's (same disk). One of these is a standard Pentium III PC with American Megatrends AMIBIOS version 7/21/2000S My extlinux.conf is:- default linux prompt 1 display boot.msg timeout 100 label linux kernel vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 append initrd=initrd-2.4.20-8.img root=/dev/hda1 also.. how can I remove extlinux.sys from a directory? Thanks in advance. Mike Andrews
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Mike Andrews wrote:> I am tiring to boot /dev/hda1 with a ext2 file system. I am using extlinux > 3.08 and installed it in the /boot directory with "/sbin/extlinux /boot" and > set up the mbr with "cat mbr.bin > /dev/hda". The installer reported "/boot > device is /dev/hda1". > > On booting extlinux.sys runs and displays "EXTLINUX 3.08 2005-05-19" but not > the copyright message.Try to back down to 3.07 for the time being. Works for me :) Was having problems with 3.08 too. The syslinux maintainer has noted the issue. -- http://zitseng.com/