[syslinux] Using syslinux to boot from .... hard disk?

[Andrey Vul]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Nazo wrote:
>
>>
>> Though they've already told you that it definitely should work, I just
>> thought I'd let you know that I'm using Syslinux as my primary boot
>> manager.  I never loved lilo or grub that much, and syslinux has just
>> met my needs the best of them all, so I use it even though I have to
>> manually do everything since I've yet to see a linux distro who's
>> installer actually could do syslinux.  It's installed on my old 130GiB
>> harddrive, with a linux partition at the end (eg WAY past 8GiB) and so
>> far the only problem I've ever had was with certain versions not
>> getting along with my bios (bios problem, not syslinux really, but,
>> fixed now anyway.)
>
>
> Someone told me the other day that either Gentoo or Ubuntu had 
> switched to extlinux as primary boot loader.  I can't confirm either :-/
>
>     -hpa
>
It's Gentoo - Ubuntu uses GRUB as a bootlader (and last time I checked 
synaptic, the apt front-end included in Ubuntu, ther is no extlinux package

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