[syslinux] extlinux-4.0 can't boot on our platform.

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/06/2010 11:33 PM, 孤云独闲 wrote:
> Hi all:
>      my filesystem is btrfs. /boot and / is  on the same partition(/dev/sda2,
> format btrfs).  i install syslinux as following:
>       1.  rpm  -ivh syslinux-4.00-1.i386.rpm
> syslinux-extlinux-4.00-1.i386.rpm syslinux-tftpboot-4.00-1.i386.rpm
>       2.  extlinux-i /boot/extlinux. (the extlinux.sys can't be create on the
> directory).
>       3.  i copy extlinux.conf to  /boot/extlinux . (of course , i have edit
> the extlinux.conf)
>       4. extlinux -U  /boot/extlinux
>      5.  cat /usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin>/dev/sda.
>
> i reboot , but the system can't boot,  the screen show tips "No DEFAULT or
> UI configuration directive found!" , i doubt mbr isn't installed.
>      do you tell me why and what  i do next?
>

Are you using compressed btrfs?  We don't handle that yet.

	-hpa