similar to: Using extlinux

Hello, I noticed after upgrading from 3.20, I haven't been able to get syslinux to boot properly with menu.c32 or mboot.c32 from a USB key. I get an error saying invalid kernel when its trying to load menu.c32 or mboot.c32 (or any other kernel for that matter). I tried 3.35 and 3.36-pre5. Same exact behaviour. I'm using the following to compile: gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux

Some people have reported portability problems with SYSLINUX 3.00, mostly due to the use of HDIO_GETGEO_BIG, which is deprecated; additionally, the advanced menu system wouldn't build for everyone due to a spurious reference to %ebp. This release fixes these things, plus makes the extlinux installer default to zipdisk geometry (64 heads, 32 sectors) if it can't guess anything else.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The autodetection routines for some linux modules can tie up the machine for several seconds at a time. By trying to open devices not present on the machine, a local user can disrupt service considerably. A very simple exploit is victim$ ls /dev/*/* repeatedly. A suggested fix is to remove or chmod 0 device nodes for hardware not installed on the

Hello, I noticed after upgrading from 3.20, I haven't been able to get syslinux to boot properly with menu.c32 or mboot.c32 from a USB key. I get an error saying invalid kernel when its trying to load menu.c32 or mboot.c32 (or any other kernel for that matter). I tried 3.35 and 3.36-pre5. Same exact behaviour. I'm using the following to compile: gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux

Hi I have a disk which two of the partitions are part of a RAID1 setup. I'm trying to rename the the second raided partition mdadm -E /dev/sdc4 /dev/sdc4: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : 83d7657b:ebfddcb7:36b0fa14:d29a350c Name : oldname:2 Creation Time : Tue Aug 30 15:25:10 2016 Raid Level : raid1 Raid Devices : 2

Back story: I started my pool with a 200gb partition at the end of my drive (sdc5) , until I was able to clear out the data at the beginning of my drive. When I was ready, I ran `btrfs dev add /dev/sdc4 /` then `btrfs dev del /dev/sdc5 /`, $ sudo btrfs fi resize max / Resize ''/'' of ''max'' ERROR: unable to resize ''/'' - Invalid argument in

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

After an unclean shutdown, my btrfs is now unmountable: device label root devid 1 transid 375202 /dev/sdc4 parent transid verify failed on 53984886784 wanted 375202 found 375201 parent transid verify failed on 53984886784 wanted 375202 found 375201 parent transid verify failed on 53984886784 wanted 375202 found 375201 btrfs: open_ctree failed btrfsck aborts: couldn''t open because of

Hi, Duncan Elliot wrote: > What is the thought process of clearing the ISO MBR? It is not necessary in the partok case, because the partition to which you copy the image encloses the ISO, exposes it for mounting, and protects it from partition editors. (Another idea from assembler riddling turned out to be a red herring.) Without understanding the language or the BIOS habits of MBR

Hi All. Currently I am trying to change a logical volume from linear to stripped because I would like to have a better write throughput. I would like to perform this change "live" without stopping access to this lv. I have found two interesting examples: http://community.hpe.com/t5/System-Administration/Need-to-move-the-data-from-Linear-LV-to-stripped-LV-on-RHEL-5-7/td-p/6134323

The problem as I view it, lies in specifying a directory rather than a drive ( /mnt/.. or /media.. instead of /dev/sdb.. or /dev/sdc.. ). If, for instance, /dev/sdb1 is in fact mounted to /media/disk all is fine. If the path exists and is not a mountpoint ( /dev/sd... not mounted to it ), then extlinux will set the system disk as base for the directory. ( i.e. /media/disk = /dev/sda4 in my

Hi, I want use extlinux 3.07 to boot Thinstation from hard disk. o I have kernel, whos name is vmlinuz, and init RAM disk (initrd). My hard disk is... Disk /dev/hda: 65 MB, 65536000 bytes 8 heads, 32 sectors/track, 500 cylinders Units = cylinders of 256 * 512 = 131072 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 499 63856 83

> Hello, > > We are experiencing a strange behaviour on an embedded system (i386 PC board). > > The structure of our disk is the following one : > - A 2GB fat16 partition with DOS and syslinux > - A 100GB Ext4 partition with Extlinux an several linux images to boot on ram > - A swap partition > > The system boot on syslinux to choose among Dos and Linux boot using

How often is this the case ? ??? > If extlinux is the system bootloader, then often what you call the > system partition will be the one that should have extlinux installed on it. I think in most cases people try to make _some_other_ disk bootable. If I boot with extlinux as the bootloader why should I want to install it again ? Apart from that it would then require -u not -i. Casual On

--- extlinux/main.c | 9 ++++++++- libinstaller/syslxopt.c | 8 +++++++- libinstaller/syslxopt.h | 1 + man/extlinux.1 | 3 +++ 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/extlinux/main.c b/extlinux/main.c index 0669bb9..8a0ac63 100644 --- a/extlinux/main.c +++ b/extlinux/main.c @@ -381,6 +381,13 @@ int modify_adv(void) rv = -1; } } +

Hi Folks, OK - I'm not entirely new to Linux but I'm certainly not great on the boot process. What I'm trying to achieve is to boot from an external USB HDD (not flash drive) using EXTLINUX. I've run an installation against the disk using a VM. The disk was partitioned as follows: /dev/sda1 = /boot (bootable) /dev/sda2 =/swap /dev/sda3=/ (i.e. root) /dev/sda4=/dos sda1 and 3

When I try to boot my system using extlinux I get the error: EXTLINUX 3.51 2007-06-10 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2007 H. Peter Anvin Could not find kernel image: linux boot: ???????????????????????????????? I've searched the archives and it would appear that extlinux can't find the extlinux.conf file.... Is there something glaring that I am missing? TIA - Phil I have a 32MB CF card

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We are experiencing a strange behaviour on an embedded system (i386 PC board). >> >> The structure of our disk is the following one : >> - A 2GB fat16 partition with DOS and syslinux >> - A 100GB Ext4 partition with Extlinux an several linux images

Hi, I don't get the point of the write-patch-rewrite sequence. Why is it done this way? I mean, why patch the first sector if you rewrite it anyway? Or why rewrite it, if you don't patch it? (I didn't check whether patch_file_and_bootblock touches the first sector or not.) -- Thanks, Feri.

Hello, We are experiencing a strange behaviour on an embedded system (i386 PC board). The structure of our disk is the following one : - A 2GB fat16 partition with DOS and syslinux - A 100GB Ext4 partition with Extlinux an several linux images to boot on ram - A swap partition The system boot on syslinux to choose among Dos and Linux boot using chain. When Linux is chosen, syslinux chains to