I need help to get extlinux to work.
I am tiring to boot /dev/hda1 with a ext2 file system. I am using extlinux
3.08 and installed it in the /boot directory with "/sbin/extlinux
/boot" and
set up the mbr with "cat mbr.bin > /dev/hda". The installer
reported "/boot
device is /dev/hda1".
On booting extlinux.sys runs and displays "EXTLINUX 3.08 2005-05-19"
but not
the copyright message.
I discovered that my BIOS was using a different disk geometry than was
printed on the disk so I changed the BIOS to use the USER rather than the
AUTO setting and set the USER type to C=8894 H=15 S=63 and reinstalled
extlinux but no change. I tried using the -S and -H options to force
extlinux to use 15 and 63 but still no change.
I have tried various combinations of extlinux.conf and no conf file at all
but always get the same result. I don't think that extlinux.sys is getting
that far.
I get the same result from 2 different machines with different BIOS's (same
disk). One of these is a standard Pentium III PC with American Megatrends
AMIBIOS version 7/21/2000S
My extlinux.conf is:-
default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
kernel vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
append initrd=initrd-2.4.20-8.img root=/dev/hda1
also..
how can I remove extlinux.sys from a directory?
Thanks in advance.
Mike Andrews