Syslinux - Mar 2014 - installing extlinux on a fresh system. Why does it fail ?

Thanks

I let GParted create the file system. It was done on a rescue disk of
Ubuntu 12.04  (GParted 0.11.0)

I think that the problem is in my command line.

Mau


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Mattias Schlenker
<ms at mattiasschlenker.de>wrote:
> Am 24.03.2014 14:13, schrieb Mau Z:
>
>  Hi All,
>>
>> I am trying to install extlinux on a fresh system.
>>
>> Here are my steps :
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> A) Create an ext2 partition. I did the following steps :
>>
>> 1) boot from CD
>> 2) Activate GParted
>> 3) Create Partition table on the "fresh disk" (/dev/sda).
>> 4) Create 1 ext2 partition (and mark its flag as "boot").
>>
>
> Did you use mkfs.ext2 to create the filesystem or let GParted create it?
> Which version of GParted? Which version of libparted? There were some bugs
> regarding quite recent versions of GParted resulting in filesystems larger
> than the partition. And I do not trus "mkfs ext2" within parted
as well.
>
>
>  B)mkdir /mnt/Ext2_partition
>> C) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/Ext2_partition
>>
>
> I experienced some bad behaviour up to unclean filesystems using the ext2
> and ext3 drivers in kernels from 3.2 upwards. You might want to mount
> explicitly using the ext4 driver.
>
> Regards,
> Mattias
>
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Am 24.03.2014 15:35, schrieb Mau Z:
> Thanks
>
> I let GParted create the file system. It was done on a rescue disk of 
> Ubuntu 12.04  (GParted 0.11.0)
>
> I think that the problem is in my command line.
extlinux --install /mount/point/subdir

usually does the job. I suspect the filesystem was created using 
libparted's ext2 code. Unmount and run

mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1

Then mount again as ext4:

mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt/Ext2_partition

Then mkdir and run extlinux again.

Regards,
Mattias

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Thanks all,

I am a shame a little bit....

The first command was incorrect (as some of you said).
The second command was correct, the problem was the I forgot to put
"sudo"
in front of the command.

So it is simply    "extlinux --install /mount/point/subdir"       (as
Mattias and Ady said).


Sorry, and thanks all.



On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Mattias Schlenker
<ms at mattiasschlenker.de>wrote:
> Am 24.03.2014 15:35, schrieb Mau Z:
>
>  Thanks
>>
>> I let GParted create the file system. It was done on a rescue disk of
>> Ubuntu 12.04  (GParted 0.11.0)
>>
>> I think that the problem is in my command line.
>>
>
> extlinux --install /mount/point/subdir
>
> usually does the job. I suspect the filesystem was created using
> libparted's ext2 code. Unmount and run
>
> mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1
>
> Then mount again as ext4:
>
> mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt/Ext2_partition
>
> Then mkdir and run extlinux again.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mattias
>
> --
> Mattias Schlenker - Redaktion + EDV-Beratung + Linux-CD/DVD-Konzepte
> August-Bebel-Str. 74 - 04275 LEIPZIG - GERMANY
>
> Bitte fuer geschaeftliche Telefonate vorzugsweise die VoIP-Telefonnummer
> +49 341 39290767 verwenden, da ich diese aufs Mobiltelefon routen kann!
>
>