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2014 Jan 22
1
syslinux and btrfs-formatted dos/MBR partition
For the MBR: I usually don't touch the Microsoft MBR and chainload
Linux from the Microsoft bootloader. However while trying to get my
btrfs setup to work, I backed up the Microsoft MBR (dd if=/dev/sda
bs=440 count=1 of=MBRbackup.bin) and I installed the syslinux MBR. I
tried several ways:
- with the script provided by Arch: syslinux-install_update -i -a -m
- manual method with mbr.bin (first setting the boot flag on
/dev/sda3): dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/bios/mbr.bin bs=440 count=1
of=/dev/sda
- manual method with altmbr.bin:...
2014 Jan 21
2
syslinux and btrfs-formatted dos/MBR partition
Hello Gene, thanks for your reply.
Yes BIOS mode. The config wants a menu, which loads fine under ext4
and not under btrfs. Under btrfs I have also tried to remove the
syslinux.cfg file altogether (which should trigger the boot: prompt if
I am not mistaken) and the result is the same: only the copyright line
appears and no prompt.
The three letter sequence is EDD.
The disk is 160GB, here is the