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2013 Apr 17
2
Confusing error message when pointing the linux installer at a missing directory.
Last night, I was trying to install syslinux (5.01) to a SD card of
mine, writing to a subdirectory to keep the layout neat:
syslinux-5.01/linux# ./syslinux -i -d /boot /dev/mmcblk0p1
/dev/mmcblk0p1: No such file or directory
The message is coming from do_open_file() in syslinux.c: the call to
open() fails because the containing directory isn't present, and then it
calls perror(opt.device).
If the directory is present, syslinux installs and will boot. It's just
a matter of either improving the error message or trying to make the
directory before popu...
2015 Jan 02
13
[PATCH 0/9] linux/syslinux: support ext2/3/4 device
Hello,
Happy New Year!
These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't
require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if
that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that.
I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case
you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids
confusing others, I will