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Hello List Members, I have a machine that has used extlinux to boot for many years, but the hard disk needs to be replaced. I got a new hard disk and installed it in my system. The old disk is /dev/sda, and the new one is /dev/sdb. I'm using GPT partitioning, and I did (after a day) finally get the legacy bootable flag set on /dev/sdb for the boot partition /dev/sda1. I then formatted out

Fine, I will do it all again and use some tool like 'script' to log every single byte, but it'll be a few days before I can email that to you since it takes overnight to zero out the drive to ensure no old data will interfere, and copying the data from the old drive to the new one is also rather slow. For the record, I did RTFM. It has no complete examples for _ANY_ use case, and you

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

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

Hello, when I try to boot from my computer extlinux needs about one minute before the boot menu is shown. Here's my system configuration -Two IDE drives on one controller -Second hdd is boot hdd -I'm using Arch Linux (i686) Is there an official bug tracker which I can use? I only found the debian bug tracker and I can't find any information about bugs on the homepage. Here is my

I just tried to boot extlinux off of /dev/sdb and use the option localboot 0x80. I was hoping to see syslinux for the second time as the system loaded the master boot rec from /dev/sda. Why is this option only in pxelinux and isolinux? Nicholas A. Schembri State College PA USA

Hi, My problem is I have a particular system which has Linux (LFS) and Windows XP on one drive and Windows 10 on a second drive. I use extlinux to boot my systems and all three systems boot as expected, however in use I have found unsatisfactory interactions between the Windows XP and the Windows 10 systems. My question is: Is it possible on booting one of the Windows systems to hide

>> Straight away the booting process looks different than with 4.06. >> The periods that were showing progress in loading the initramfs now >> does not increase as the initramfs is loaded. So, only three periods >> after each initramfs. > > That happened in version 5.00. Good to know that this is expected behavior. However, some sort of indication that the initramfs

> cat gptmbr.bin >/dev/sdb1 I just realized that I was not _that_ explicit as I should had been in my prior reply regarding this part of your steps. Not only that CAT is not the best method for troubleshooting, but that "*mbr*.bin" is not supposed to be transferred (in any way, with any method) to sdb1 (emphasis in the partition number, "1" in this case). The

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

Hai , I am Prasanth .Newly subscribed to mailing list.I am in search for a boot loader which could boot linux form Usb flash memory. i am in process of building a new USB linux distribution . Can anybody give help. Things I need to know. Could syslinux could recognize a usb flash drive and filesystem inside that ? If yes is how ? Thanks in advance, Prasanth Kurian

Hello all, I have 2 x 250GB sata disks (sda and sdb). # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 14939 119997486 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 14940 29878

Hello, today I upgraded from Syslinux 4.06 to to Syslinux 5.00. But now the system won't boot anymore and I get the message Failed to load ldlinux.c32 Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue What I have done: 1) Installed Syslinux 5.00 2) Reinstalled "mbr.bin" to /dev/sda and /dev/sdb using dd bs=440 count=1 conv=notrunc

Hello. A couple of years ago I installed two file-servers using kickstart. The server has two 1TB sata disks with two software raid1 partitions as follows: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdb4[1] sda4[0] 933448704 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda2[2](F) 40957568 blocks [2/1] [_U] Now the drives are starting to be failing and next week

Hello everyone. I'm trying to install CentOS 8 with root and swap partitions on software raid. The plan is: - create md0 raid level 1 with 2 hard drives: /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, using Linux Rscue CD, - install CentOS 8 with Virtual Box on my laptop, - rsync CentOS 8 root partition on /dev/md0p1, - chroot in CentOS 8 root partition, - configure /etc/mdadm.conf, grub.cfg, initramfs, install

Hi, I encounter a problem with Syslinux 5.00 I cannot really describe. So I created two small videos: Booting with Syslinux 5.00 (1.3 MB): <https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6g8cdf2t9v48c6/boot-syslinux5-fail.mp4> How I fixed the problem by downgrading to Syslinux 4.06 and how booting should look like (6.5 MB): <https://www.dropbox.com/s/lt7cpgfm0qvqtba/boot-syslinux5-how-i-fixed-it.mp4>

Hi list, I'm new with UEFI and GPT. For several years I've used MBR partition table. I've installed my system on software raid1 (mdadm) using md0(sda1,sdb1) for swap, md1(sda2, sdb2) for /, md2 (sda3,sdb3) for /home. From several how-to concerning raid1 installation, I must put each partition on a different md devices. I've asked times ago if it's more correct create the

Hi, well, I was finally able to build syslinux-5.11-pre8 from git, but the system doesn't boot with the self-compiled version. All I see is: http://666kb.com/i/cfplluqpcy6owptq3.jpg Build log can be found in http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-July/020452.html After I installed the self-compiled syslinux version, I run this commands: # cd /boot/extlinux # rm -rf *.c32 # extlinux

Hi, all! I want to change current RHEL 4.0 ES into CentOS 4.2 on Sun X4100 server. The server has SAS SCSI based two 2.5" hard disks. I could only install RHEL 4.0 Update 1 because the server is equipped with RHEL 4.0 Update 1's device driver only. I've included below the boot process messages concerned with SCSI controller. If it's possible for me to install CentOS 4.0 on my

Le 04/12/2018 ? 23:50, Stephen John Smoogen a ?crit?: > In the rescue mode, recreate the partition table which was on the sdb > by copying over what is on sda > > > sfdisk ?d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb > > This will give the kernel enough to know it has things to do on > rebuilding parts. Once I made sure I retrieved all my data, I followed your suggestion, and it looks