On Dec 16, 2013 7:22 PM, "Gene Czarcinski" <gczarcinski at
gmail.com> wrote:>
> I am a relative newcomer to using extlinux. I am running Fedora 20 which
means I am using syslinux 4.05. When I noticied that all of your
documentation said that booting off ext234 and btrfs was supported, I gave
it a try. Indeed, this does work with the boot files and the extlinux
directory installed into the btrfs (root) volume.>
> Has any thought been given to supporting supporting /boot/extlinux being
on a btrfs subvolume? This does mean that there is an extra level (the
subvol) which looks a lot like a directory.
I'd recommend the precompiled version 4.07 binaries from kernel.org as it
should have this resolved.
> Since booting with the btrfs used works, I thought that it might be only
a matter of configuration. To test this, I installed /boot into a btrfs
subvolume. Post install, I then edited extlinx.conf to add the prefix
/boot1/ to the /vmlinuz and /initramfs parameters. The installation
included a mount point for the btrfs volume so I then
ran:> /sbin/extlinux --install /btrfsvol/boot1/extlinux and it responded
with device on /dev/vda1.>
> This looked like it should work but it did not. Instead I got a lot of
"found" messages.>
> Comments? Any ideas?
>
> Gene
--Gene