[syslinux] extlinux to boot linux from the second drive

[Geert Stappers]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:58:03AM +0100, akozlov at nada.kth.se wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Can extlinux boot Linux kernel from the second drive?  I want to leave
> Windows XP on the first IDE drive and put Linux to the first partition
> (ext2/ext3) on the second IDE drive. I am allowed to change MBR on the
> first drive. Will the following configuration work?
> 
> 	/dev/hda1 - Windows
> 	/dev/hdb1 - Linux root (/, /boot, ...)
> 	/dev/hda  - extlinux in MBR
> 	/boot/vmlinuz
> 
> 	extlinux /boot
> 
> /boot/extlinux.conf:
> 
> 	LABEL win
> 		KERNEL chain.c32
> 		APPEND hd0 1
> 	LABEL lin
> 		KERNEL vmlinuz
> 		APPEND hd1 1
> 

No, that won't work.

What I understand from {sys|ext|iso}linux is that it handles 1
filesystem very well.
But you are asking multiple filesystems on multiple disks.

Use a (bloated) bootloader for such purposes.


> Thank you,
> Alex.

Cheers
Geert Stappers

P.S.
What caused the ML hick up?
(and who to warn the next time?)