[syslinux] Replace grub with extlinux

[Dwight Schauer]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
> Face <falazemi at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I did set the active flag on the /dev/hda1 and there is no error
>> message whatsoever . the thing i am not sure of is in the
>> extlinux.conf
>>
>>     KERNEL /boot/vmlinux-2.6.34
>>     APPEND initrd=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.34  root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash
>>
>> i use the same file to KERNAL and APPEND
>
> Ah, right.  That's not likely to work.  Use the initrd filename you had
> in your grub config.
>

Do you need the /boot? I know it is usually symlinked, but I always
leave it off when my /boot is in a different partition.

To me the bootloader OS and the OS I'm booting from it are separate
operating systems, so the /boot is superfluous.

>From my extlinux.conf:

kernel /vmlinuz26
append initrd=/kernel26.img root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/<snip> ro quiet vga=0x31A

And yes, the same file for kernel and initrd will not work.

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Dwight Schauer