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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

Hi , I ve tested the pclinux minime on usb 1Gb and later 8Gb, with fat32 and syslinux boot , works splendid in Ram , and persistant saves on stick.. Now i want to try extlinux-boot with ext2 or 3 on the usb. With ext3 , i get constantly bumped to commandline, where i could type in the vmlinuz and initrd paths , but it cant make the loop-file of minime work..so it gets little panic :* But it wont

... and this is pretty much the first version of 2.20 which can be considered likely to actually work, except for the Win32 installer. The big news in this prerelease, by far, is EXTLINUX. I'm also hacking on a "simple menu system" as a com32 module; basically a hack to re-parse the config file and display a menu of its label statements. Don't know when that'll be ready

Hi! Using the following extlinux.conf serial 0x2f8 57600 0x013 # that is, RTS/CTS flow control on COM2 prompt 1 timeout 100 say Select 'linux' or 'xen'. say Automatically booting 'xen' in 10 seconds. default xen label linux kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 append initrd=/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/mapper/xen1-root ro console=tty0 console=ttyS1,57600n8r noresume

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; } } +

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

Hello list, I'm having problems with newest BIOS updates from Gigabyte to my Mother Boards, they don't want to boot syslinux, extlinux y usb-hdd mode. Then I need to know if someone else are having same problem, and can send me the Mother Board versions and bios versions to report as a bios bug. this is from the support, I'm awaiting for answer.

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

Hi, I'm trying to build extlinux statically, but no matter what CFLAGS or OPTFLAGS I set in the Makefiles I get bios/extlinux/extlinux: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=ef970f59a48b226b2397b73a56e02a73b79c5f0a, not stripped I have tried adding OPTFLAGS= -static to the extlinux/Makefile as well as

Hi: I've been seeing intermittent build failures with the extlinux target, and I believe I've tracked it down to a VPATH issue. See this make -d log: Finished prerequisites of target file `extlinux'. Prerequisite `extlinux.o' is newer than target `extlinux'. Prerequisite `setadv.o' is newer than target `extlinux'. Prerequisite

Hello list, in a previous post I mentioned I had managed to make USB-Stick with 2048 byte sectors bootable. In fact I wiped out my Linux partitions bootrecord. This was with an old version of extlinux as still distributed by openSuSE. Interestingly enough the current version syslinux-3.61-pre2, spares my hard disk, but still seems to live under the impression it is the USB stick. The setup is

Hi all: my filesystem is btrfs. /boot and / is on the same partition(/dev/sda2, format btrfs). i install syslinux as following: 1. rpm -ivh syslinux-4.00-1.i386.rpm syslinux-extlinux-4.00-1.i386.rpm syslinux-tftpboot-4.00-1.i386.rpm 2. extlinux-i /boot/extlinux. (the extlinux.sys can't be create on the directory). 3. i copy extlinux.conf to /boot/extlinux . (of course

hello, quick question about extlinux: I accidentally installed extlinux on the wrong partition (I run extlinux -i somewhere beofre mounting my usb key to somewhere). Now extlinux seems to be stuck in my main hd partition... how do I remove extlinux from the hard drive? I mean both the extlinux.sys file and the bits in the partition table... Could not find any info how to doit. Thanks. Paolo

1. Which label is referred by -M, --menu-save=label Set the label to select as default on the next boot ? 2. With # grep 'label' /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf label 1 menu label An old linux version 2.1 What will be the consequences of # extlinux -M 1 /boot/extlinux and # extlinux -M 'An old linux version' /boot/extlinux 2.2 What are