Syslinux - Jan 2008 - [Fwd: Re: extlinux reports "./extlinux: path /media/disk doesn't match device /dev/sda4"]

How often is this the case ?
???
> If extlinux is the system bootloader, then often
what you call the 
> system partition will be the one that should have
extlinux installed on it.

I think in most cases people try to make _some_other_
disk bootable. If I boot with extlinux as the
bootloader
why should I want to install it again ? Apart from
that it would then require -u not -i.

Casual

On Sa, 2008-01-26 at 19:06 -0800, H. Peter Anvin
wrote:
> Casual Programmer wrote:
> > 
> > The idea is, that the root directory "/" will
always
> > be on the system disk, so I just added a pass to
find
> > the "devname" belonging to "/" then 
> > proceeding as normal. If the devnames for "/" and
the
> > target directory match, extlinux aborts indicating
> > this fact.
> > 
> 
> This is completely and totally bogus.
> 
> If extlinux is the system bootloader, then often
what you call the 
> system partition will be the one that should have
extlinux installed on it.
> 
> 	-hpa
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Op 27-01-2008 om 00:23 schreef Casual Programmer:
> 
> I think in most cases people try to make _some_other_ disk bootable.
Euh, yes.

> If I boot with extlinux as the bootloader
> why should I want to install it again ?

You don't need to.
It indeed doesn't make sense to re-install a bootloader
on a computer that can boot.



Geert Stappers
With having the feeling that he is lost in this thread.
Please respect the discussion order and reply below the text.