[syslinux] Unable to figure out extlinux

[Peter]

Crud, didn't even think of that. That was it. Now I'm getting an invalid 
kernel image error. Will start tracking that down now. Thanks for the help.

Jacob Alifrangis wrote:
> It looks like you created a partition but didn't make it active,
>
> Run fdisk on the linux host machine (development box) and mark the partition using the a key, close fdisk and remove the volume, that should work.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of Pete
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:55 PM
> To: syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: [syslinux] Unable to figure out extlinux
>
> OK, been perusing the archives and Google, but can't find what I want. 
> I'm building up a 512 MB compact flash using the CLFS directions to 
> build the filesystem. That works great, but I would like to use extlinux 
> to make the cflash bootable on my little SBC. However, to date, no dice. 
> Attached is my extlinux.conf file and the steps I have used to make this 
> work.
>
> Initially I tried to put everything in /boot and point the conf file 
> there. No errors when running extlinux, but I get a bad or missing OS 
> error when I try to boot it. I fiddled with the conf file, tried again, 
> same problem. Moved everything from /boot to /, and same error. I know 
> I'm missing something, but I'm not sure what. Another thing I tried was 
> to copy the mbr.img to the disk, but that didn't help. Some details
>
> hde: SanDisk SDCFB-512, CFA DISK drive
> ide2 at 0x3100-0x3107,0x310e on irq 19
> hde: max request size: 128KiB
> hde: 1000944 sectors (512 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=993/16/63
>  hde: hde1
>
> [root at tyr Murano]# cat extlinux.conf
> default Murano
> prompt 1
> timeout 40
>
> label Murano
> kernel /vmlinux
> append init=/linuxrc root=/dev/hda1
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
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