similar to: Request EXTLINUX support 64bit features in ext4

Hello syslinux, I'm a newbie to extlinux, and I'm a developer from yocto project (an embedded linux project). The device or filesystem must be mounted before we can install the bootsector to the device if I understand correctly, for example: $ mount /dev/sdcX /tmp/mnt $ extlinux -i /tmp/mnt Usually, the mount command requires the root privilage, we may not have the root privilage when

> > Hi Ady, > > Thank you very much, I prefer this one, add the extN support to > linux/syslinux-nomtools, create a new "e2fs/syslinux" may make things > more complicated for the user, I will make it as: > > 1) If it is a extN device, then root privilege is not required. > 2) Otherwise work as before. > > Any suggestions is appreciated. > > //

Hello, seems like the new default ext2/ext3 256 bytes inode size problem applies to extlinux. HPA, could you confirm it? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491076 http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html E2fsprogs 1.40.5 (January 27, 2008) "Mke2fs will now create new filesystems with 256 byte inodes and the ext_attr feature flag by default. This allows for

Am Mi, 11. Okt 2017, um 01:34, schrieb Ady Ady via Syslinux: > > > On 10/10/17 12:28, Manuel Wagesreither via Syslinux wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I'm working on a shell script which is producing a bootable image file. It contains a populated MBR and a single file system (ext4) which again contains a debootstrabed debian stable distribution. >

Hi, It looks like extlinux's code doesn't have support for the "64bit" feature of ext4: extlinux: struct ext2_group_desc { ... uint32_t bg_inode_table; /* Inodes table block */ ... } ext4: struct ext4_group_desc { ... uint32_t bg_inode_table_lo; /* Inodes table block */ ... uint32_t bg_inode_table_hi; /* Inodes table block MSB */ } I'm seeing an

> On 10/10/17 12:28, Manuel Wagesreither via Syslinux wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I'm working on a shell script which is producing a bootable image file. It contains a populated MBR and a single file system (ext4) which again contains a debootstrabed debian stable distribution. > > Used versions: > > extlinux 6.03 > > QEMU emulator version

On 12/25/2014 01:43 PM, Ady wrote: > >> >> >> On 12/25/2014 04:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> On 12/24/2014 12:16 AM, Robert Yang wrote: >>>> Hello syslinux, >>>> >>>> Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted >>>> ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: >>>> >>>> $ extlinux

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 all, I am trying to replace grub with extlinux without any luck. I did remove the grub from my root Partition and boot from a LiveCD. I install syslinux and did those steps Boot Partition: mkdir -pv /mnt/sda1 mke2fs -jv /dev/hda1 mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda1 mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/sda1 Root Partition export SDB1=/mnt/sdb1 mkdir -pv $SDB1

On 11/20/2014 10:21 PM, Robert Yang wrote: > > which can copy files into test.img without mount it, for example: > $ mke2fs -t ext3 -d <rootfs_dir> -F test.img > > I'd like to make extlinux can work without mount the filesystem (use > libext2fs), is it possible for extlinux, please ? And is such a patch > acceptable, please ? (Add a "-d/--device

> > > On 11/21/2014 02:33 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 11/20/2014 10:21 PM, Robert Yang wrote: > >> > >> which can copy files into test.img without mount it, for example: > >> $ mke2fs -t ext3 -d <rootfs_dir> -F test.img > >> > >> I'd like to make extlinux can work without mount the filesystem (use > >>

I am trying to boot Linux from a USB memory device containing an ext2 file system using extlinux and having a bit of trouble. Apologies for any naiive questions and assumptions. The USB device is an 8M byte Compact Flash card in a USB reader. I used fdisk to create a single partition across the whole of the device (partition 4 - is that important?) and made it bootable. Fdsik reported the

On 11/21/2014 02:33 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 11/20/2014 10:21 PM, Robert Yang wrote: >> >> which can copy files into test.img without mount it, for example: >> $ mke2fs -t ext3 -d <rootfs_dir> -F test.img >> >> I'd like to make extlinux can work without mount the filesystem (use >> libext2fs), is it possible for extlinux, please ? And is such

1. ext4 mke2fs -b 4096 -m 5 -t ext4 -O^uninit_bg -r 1 -v /dev/sdb1 sdparm --command=sync /dev/sdb 2. 150G 3. gdisk /dev/sdb x a 2 w y sdparm --command=sync /dev/sdb 4. mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 cd /mnt/sdb1 extlinux -i /mnt/sdb1/boot umount /mnt/sdb1 sync;sync;sync sdparm --command=sync /dev/sdb cat gptmbr.bin >/dev/sdb1 sync;sync;sync sdparm --command=sync /dev/sdb

Hello syslinuxers I'm stuck with a scientific problem which gives me headaches: I have a laptop (Gateway MX3410) which has a SD memory card reader. Recently an interesting thought crossed my mind: why don't I setup a 2GB SD card as a harddrive and put some rescue tools on it. So I dug on the net and I came across the idea of using memdisk to boot floppy images without the need of a

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

Hi All, Trying to run fsck on a local linux raid partition gave the following. [root at ... /]# fsck.ext4 /dev/md0 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) /dev/md0 has unsupported feature(s): 64bit e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck! Odd as the server is 64bit running latest kernel and using latest "e2fsprogs.x86_64". Any ideas awould be much appreciated. Cheers Steve k

> 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

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

--- 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; } } +