similar to: extlinux can't find extlinux.conf file?

Hi, Today I replaced grub(1) with syslinux on my laptop, after rebooting to syslinux and selecting kernel I got massive freeze along with colorful output to screen - http://i.imgur.com/lFjFc.jpg I think I tried everything, even doing esc and writing after boot: /bzImage-3.1.0, after enter I had the same freeze with the same screen artefacts. How I installed extlinux: mkdir /boot/extlinux

Hello list, I'm trying to reuse a fairly old PC based embedded system. It has no video output at all, no VGA, nothing older, and no keyboard / mouse connectors. The console is on a standard RS232 interface, including BIOS output and the minimal BIOS loader. The BIOS emulates / redirects text output to and keyboard input from the console RS232 interface, but unfortunately, this emulation

Hi I understand you (mostly). 0) How do i "install the MBR code as well and to activate your partition." 1) "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" -->> successfully completed. 2) "mkdir /mnt/extlinux" -->> successfully completed. 3) "extlinux --install /mnt/extlinux" -->> does not work. Funny, but it it seems that there is no such thing as

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:54 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > > > On 01/14/2014 10:34 AM, Mattias Schlenker wrote: > > > Am 14.01.2014 17:48, schrieb Mau Z: > > >> > > >> prompt 1 > > >> DEFAULT linux > > >> LABEL linux > > >> SAY Now booting my first extlinux > > >> KERNEL /bzImage

Thanks all, I did find extlinux in "my syslinux tarball" (I think that I understand my confusion now - I will explain at the end). So, now almost everything is fine...... Clearly my extlinux.conf is working (I can see my output on the console (SAY XXX)) I have a bzImage + rootfs.tar I tried : 0) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/MyMountForSda1 -->> success 1) cd /mnt/MyMountForSda1

On 01/14/2014 10:34 AM, Mattias Schlenker wrote: > Am 14.01.2014 17:48, schrieb Mau Z: >> >> prompt 1 >> DEFAULT linux >> LABEL linux >> SAY Now booting my first extlinux >> KERNEL /bzImage >> APPEND ro root=/dev/sda1 >> >> but I got the same results........ >> > > 1. Use "LINUX" instead of "KERNEL" to

Hi! I have the same situation, but some more information : 1) I have tried to change the last line to "APPEND root=/dev/sda1", it did not seem to make any difference 2) If I type ENTER at the prompt, syslinux loads the kernel (but with the same results mentioned above). So, clearly I have a problem with my extlinux.conf. Thanks Mau On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Mau Z

Hi! It's funny, but I was unable to find an answer to my question. I am building an embedded system (x86). I want to install syslinux on a fresh system. So, I am booting from a USB LINUX CD (Ubuntu 12.04 in this case). 1) I must have an ext2 partition (This is my application). 2) I understand that I must have a FAT partition (to install syslinux). Correct ? So, basically I understand that

I'm having a problem with extlinux booting to a Linux kernel image and initial ramdisk with a symbolic link. My /boot looks like this: extlinux.conf extlinux.sys initrd.img -> initrd.img-2.6.22.1 initrd.img-2.6.22.1 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.22.1 vmlinuz-2.6.22.1 The relevant section of my extlinux.conf file is this: label 1 kernel /boot/vmlinuz append initrd=/boot/initrd.img The error

Hi, I am having a problem booting from a disk installed with extlinux. The exact configuration that worked with version 3.36, when upgraded to 3.50, appears to still work on the same disk. But if I zap out the disk (i.e. start from scratch again) and install extlinux, the disk fails to boot. Extlinux stops at the boot: prompt after displaying "Could not find kernel image: linux". It

Hi, I'm trying to make Syslinux, OSTree and Qemu work together. So I've made an image, installed Syslinux v. 6.0.3 on it with extlinux and try to boot it. Unfortunately it stops on the stage of loading the kernel with Loading /boot/ostree/agl-17980142f6d5ef5e82153aa533ffb9775181f93248e62a4821f925cdf1b81c34/vmlinuz... failed: I/O error The vmlinuz file is just a normal bzImage (v.

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

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 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

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'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, 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

Due to delayed allocation feature on XFS filesystems, a write is not guaranteed to flushed out to the underlying file system after crash or something else - so we need to make sure that ldlinux.sys is installed correctly in the mounted filesystem. Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pcacjr at zytor.com> --- extlinux/main.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/extlinux/main.c

Hi all : my /dev/sda2 is ext3 format filesystem, the os moblin is installed in /dev/sda2 which is root partition, the bootloader is grub, now i want to change the bootloader to extlinux, but i came across some trouble, so i did some steps as following: 1. rpm -ivh syslinux-extlinux*.rpm 2. extlinux -i /boot/extlinux 3. i edit extlinux.conf , and put it in /boot/extlinux/, there 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