[syslinux] installing extlinux on a fresh system. Why does it fail ?
Mau Z
zmau1962 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 06:13:50 PDT 2014
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").
B)mkdir /mnt/Ext2_partition
C) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/Ext2_partition
D) mkdir /mnt/Ext2_partition/extlinux
E) extlinux --directory /mnt/Ext2_partition/extlinux --install /dev/sda1
Step E fails (as if the command line is incorrect). I get the same output
as if I typed "extlinux" without arguments.
What's wrong ?
I also tried
E) extlinux --install /dev/sda1 --> fail ""
E) extlinux --install /mnt/Ext2_partition/extlinux
The output was the following two lines :
/mnt/Ext2_partition/extlinux is device /dev/sda1
extlinux : cannot open device /dev/sda1
What's wrong ?
Thanks
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