[syslinux] chainboot Windows on second drive

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jun 16 12:47:28 PDT 2008


Aeron Draxar wrote:
> 
> I still need some help to install 3.70-pre17. I tried to install from
> Ubuntu and I had the same issue than with Fedora: I've lost all my
> partitions. I may have done something wrong.
> I untar the archive, make, make extbootinstaller, then cat
> core/extlinux.bss > /dev/sda. Reboot and crak, no more partitions.
> How do install extlinux from this pre17 archive?
> 

Ah, yes, that would be very bad (you just wiped out your partition 
table, and possibly your first partition metadata.)

Instead, mount the partition and run the extlinux installer.  Assuming 
you want extlinux installed in /boot/extlinux on the device:

	mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
	syslinux-3.70-preXX/extlinux/extlinux -i /mnt/boot/extlinux
	cp -f syslinux-3.70-preXX/com32/*/*.c32 /mnt/boot/extlinux
	umount /mnt

	-hpa




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