[syslinux] question about extlinux.conf on flashstick with ext2

[H. Peter Anvin]

g3a no1 wrote:
> Hi ,
> I ve tested the pclinux minime on usb 1Gb and later 8Gb, with fat32 and syslinux boot , works splendid in Ram , and persistant saves on stick..
> Now i want to try extlinux-boot with ext2 or 3 on the usb.
> With ext3 , i get constantly bumped to commandline, where i could type in the vmlinuz and initrd paths , but it cant make the loop-file of minime work..so it gets little panic :*
> But it wont read the extlinux.conf in /boot/extlinux on sda1

That's somewhat odd.  When you say "wont read", can you explain what 
happens?  Is the right partition set active?

> With ext2 somehow it reads and finds the extlinux.conf - but after 
> vmlinuz and initrd - it bumps back to reboot...

You get bumped to the command line because you have "prompt 1" in your 
config file, I presume you already realized that.

Your command line is full of arguments which appear specific to your 
distribution (minime, I guess), including stuff like /dev/rd/3 which is 
old devfs syntax.

I don't think what you're having here is a syslinux problem, as it 
appears to bootstrap everything.and I don't know if you'll find anyone 
on the list familiar with your specific distribution.  You might want to 
ask in a minime forum.

	-hpa