[syslinux] Replace grub with extlinux

[Bjørn Mork]

Face <falazemi at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to replace grub with extlinux without any luck. I did
> remove the grub from my root Partition and boot from a LiveCD. I
> install syslinux and did those steps
>
>     Boot Partition:
>         mkdir -pv /mnt/sda1
>         mke2fs -jv /dev/hda1
>         mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda1
>         mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/sda1
>
>     Root Partition
>         export SDB1=/mnt/sdb1
>         mkdir -pv $SDB1
>         mount -v -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 $SDB1
>
>     SWAP Partition
>         /sbin/swapon -v /dev/hdb5
>
>     Installing extlinux to /dev/sda1
>         dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1
>         dd if=/mnt/sdb1/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda
>         install -d /mnt/sda1/boot
>         /sbin/extlinux --install /mnt/sda1/boot
>
>     Writing extlinux.conf file
>        export  ExtlinuxConf=/mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux.conf
>        echo "DEFAULT AlDimnaOS" > $ExtlinuxConf
>        echo "LABEL AlDimnaOS" >> $ExtlinuxConf
>        echo "	KERNEL /boot/vmlinux-2.6.34-AlDimnaOS-0.0.0.1" >> $ExtlinuxConf
>        echo " 	APPEND initrd=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.34-AlDimnaOS-0.0.0.1
> root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash" >> $ExtlinuxConf
>        echo "	TIMEOUT 100" >> $ExtlinuxConf
>        echo "	PROMPT 1" >> $ExtlinuxConf
>
> Copy vmlinux to boot Partition
>     cp /mnt/sdb1/boot.old/vmlinux-2.6.34 \
> 			/mnt/sda1/boot/vmlinux-2.6.34
>
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated

Did you remember to set the active flag on the /dev/hda1 partition?

If that's not it, then I guess describing defining "without any luck"
would help. Do you see any error messages?  Does it still boot grub?
Exactly what problems do you see?


Bjørn