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
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Mau Z <zmau1962 at gmail.com> wrote:> 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, adviseI see that page needs a little work on terms. Anyways, EXTLINUX is no longer a separate boot loader variant as its functionality has been merged into SYSLINUX as of 4.00. extlinux/extlinux is the SYSLINUX installer for mounted file systems on Linux. linux/syslinux and mtools/syslinux are the SYSLINUX installers for unmounted FAT* file systems on Linux. -- -Gene
Thanks Can you help on "the big question" ? which is under the name "installing syslinux on a fresh system (SATA)" Mau On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Mau Z <zmau1962 at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > I see that page needs a little work on terms. > > Anyways, EXTLINUX is no longer a separate boot loader variant as its > functionality has been merged into SYSLINUX as of 4.00. > extlinux/extlinux is the SYSLINUX installer for mounted file systems > on Linux. linux/syslinux and mtools/syslinux are the SYSLINUX > installers for unmounted FAT* file systems on Linux. > > -- > -Gene >
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Mau Z <zmau1962 at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi again, > One more thing for my understanding : > How do I activate EXTLINUX ? > I had reformatted the disk for ext2 only > Then, When I do "syslinux --directory /boot/syslinux/ --install /dev/sda1" > ->> the result is : > > "Invalid media signature (not a FAT filesystem?)"For ext2, mount it and specify the path: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt extlinux --install /mnt/boot/syslinux/ -- -Gene