[syslinux] Booting with extlinux ?!?

[Rory Vieira]

Hi,

I'm unable to utilize extlinux properly. I must be doing something wrong:

Clear entire hdd:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/devv/hda bs=1M

Creating single active partition...:
fdisk /dev/hda

Formatting the partition...:
mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1

Mount it:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd

Install extlinux:
extlinux -i /mnt/hd

reboot machine and force it to boot from the hdd...
"Booting from harddisk..." and then nothing... it just hangs there...

What I also tried so far:

dd if=extlinux.bss of=/dev/hda bs=1
Didn't do much either...

dd if=dos.bss of=/dev/hda bs=1
original dos boot sector created using dos "FDISK /MBR", going to
linux and dd'ing the first 512 bytes to dos.bss :)
But this didn't help either...

Maybe somebody already knows what is missing/wrong?!?

Cheers and thanks in advance,
-- 
Rory Vieira
rory dot vieira at gmail dot com