[syslinux] Replace grub with extlinux

[Face]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
> Dwight Schauer <dschauer at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> That's another point yes.  Not only do you not need it, but it will fail
> unless your kernel and initramfs is installed in /boot/boot.  extlinux
> won't know anything about mountpoints while booting, so the file names
> are based off the root of the *boot* partition, not it's usual mountpoint.
>
> But this is also the same for grub, so using the grub config as a
> starter should get this right as well.
>
>
> Bjørn
>
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well, I renamed /boo to /boo.old and add a new partition for the
/boot. so now i have
/dev/sda1 for boot only
/dev/sdb1 for filesystem


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