similar to: installing syslinux on a fresh system (SATA)

Thanks but I am still in the same spot : 1) I have created a partition (ext2 with GParted). 2) Now what ? I was thinking that I should install syslinux (the bootloader). All the examples say something like "syslinux --directory /boot/syslinux/ --install /dev/sdb1" but this does not make any seance, because the is no /boot on the system. I have tried it anyways, but the

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

Hi! I was looking to download EXTLINUX in the following page : http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Download But I do not see that it can be done. It is said that "The SYSLINUX download includes PXELINUX, ISOLINUX and MEMDISK as well." But, there is no word about EXTLINUX Please, advise Thanks Mau

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

> 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

Hi All, I am trying to install extlinux on a fresh system. Here are my steps : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A) Create an ext2 partition. I did the following steps : 1) boot from CD 2) Activate GParted 3) Create Partition table on the "fresh disk" (/dev/sda). 4) Create 1 ext2 partition (and mark its flag as "boot"). B)mkdir /mnt/Ext2_partition C) mount /dev/sda1

Thanks I let GParted create the file system. It was done on a rescue disk of Ubuntu 12.04 (GParted 0.11.0) I think that the problem is in my command line. Mau On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Mattias Schlenker <ms at mattiasschlenker.de>wrote: > Am 24.03.2014 14:13, schrieb Mau Z: > > Hi All, >> >> I am trying to install extlinux on a fresh system. >>

Hi, I am wondering how to implement the following customer's requirement : The system is a stand alone embedded system with no operator (with Linux). There is one SSD for the system's usage (and that is where the system loads from). The requirement is to have a duplication of the Linux Image, and that syslinux should calculate CRC of "the first image" (say bzImage_1). If the

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

Mau Z <zmau1962 at gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote: > >> Mau Z <zmau1962 at gmail.com> writes: >> >> > So, basically I understand that I must create 2 partitions. >> >> If your application partition is ext2, then there's no need to create a >> separate boot partition,

I have syslinux 5.10 on a 32bit gentoo system. It boots fine. Now I installed another linux system in other partitions of the same drive (a 64 bit system), updated syslinux.cfg, setup the new system as default, and the new entry appears in the menu. Problem is: it doesn't boot. On timeout, it starts counting down again, and that's it. No error message whatsoever. Selecting the old system

Mau Z <zmau1962 at gmail.com> writes: > I understand you (mostly). > 0) How do i "install the MBR code as well and to activate your partition." Find mbr.bin in the mbr directory of your syslinux tarball, then: # cat mbr.bin >/dev/sda To activate the partition (mark it bootable for the MBR code): # fdisk /dev/sda Print the partition table with the 'p' command.

Hi! Can extlinux boot Linux kernel from the second drive? I want to leave Windows XP on the first IDE drive and put Linux to the first partition (ext2/ext3) on the second IDE drive. I am allowed to change MBR on the first drive. Will the following configuration work? /dev/hda1 - Windows /dev/hdb1 - Linux root (/, /boot, ...) /dev/hda - extlinux in MBR /boot/vmlinuz extlinux /boot

Mau Z <zmau1962 at gmail.com> writes: > So, basically I understand that I must create 2 partitions. If your application partition is ext2, then there's no need to create a separate boot partition, you can simply use extlinux. Basically, extlinux is the (mounted) ext[234]/btrfs/XFS installer, while syslinux is the (not mounted) FAT installer of the same boot loader. -- Regards,

I used syslinux to make an external usb hard drive booting up "system rescue cd" from a FAT primary partition. The procedure I followed was setting on the boot flag on the FAT partition and copying the content of the iso image to it and renaming isolinux to syslinux wherever needed. I then unmounted the device and ran "syslinux -d /syslinux/ -i /dev/sdxn" where sdxn is the

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 06:14:36AM +0100, Geert Stappers via Syslinux wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 05:05:26AM +0200, Ady via Syslinux wrote: > > diff U3 syslinux-6.03/extlinux/main.c syslinux-6.03_typo/extlinux/main.c > > --- syslinux-6.03/extlinux/main.c Mon Oct 06 16:27:44 2014 > > +++ syslinux-6.03_typo/extlinux/main.c Fri Nov 13 02:29:56 2015 > > patch seen >

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

Hi everyone, I have pushed out Syslinux 3.81 to the usual places. Again, special thanks to my employer, Intel, for letting me spend time working on this stuff ;) -hpa Syslinux 3.81 is primarily a bug fix release. The main new features are halt-on-idle support and some features to isohybrid, including the ability to boot from an image written to a partition. Changes in 3.81: *

Hello syslinux, Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: $ extlinux -i /dev/sdXN or $ extlinux -i file_block Also it can work with something like: $ extlinux /dev/sdXN --reset-adv or $ extlinux file_block --reset-adv We don't use a new option (I planed to use "-d" but it is already in use), it will check whether the