[syslinux] extlinux & symbolic links

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ryan Wilson wrote:
> On 7/24/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> Hm... that sounds like a very bad thing.  Is your /boot a separate
>> partition?  If so, would you be willing to dd it up and send me a copy?
>>  If not, could you try to reproduce this on a small partition, say on a
>> USB stick?
>>
>> The "boot failed" message means extlinux has gone off the rails and is
>> trying to access disk that doesn't exist.  Symbolic links obviously
>> shouldn't do that, so I suspect that you might have exposed a serious
>> bug.  I would greatly appreciate your assistance in tracking it down.
>>
>>         -hpa
>>
> 
> Right now, /boot is not on a separate partition. What do you mean by
> reproducing it on a small partition? Did you mean to just put the
> contents of /boot on a USB stick by itself and see if extlinux would
> boot it? I'll try separating /boot onto its own partition and see what
> happens.

Yes, that's what I mean.  Obviously you also need to run extlinux on the
USB stick.

	-hpa