[syslinux] extlinux boot failer

[孤云独闲]

Hi Peter:
    Thank you for your answer, the /boot is not separate
partition, belonging  to the /dev/sda2.  the /dev/sda2 is enough larger
about 150G.  my syslinux version is 3.86.  it is said the Syslinux 4.00 will
support btrfs,  really?

在 2010年6月26日 上午12:10，H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>写道：

> On 06/25/2010 05:20 AM, 孤云独闲 wrote:
>  > Hi all :
> >    my /dev/sda2 is ext3 format filesystem, the os moblin is installed in
> > /dev/sda2 which is root partition, the bootloader is grub, now i want to
> > change the bootloader to extlinux, but i came across some trouble,  so i
> did
> > some steps as following:
> >    1. rpm -ivh syslinux-extlinux*.rpm
> >    2. extlinux -i /boot/extlinux
> >    3. i edit extlinux.conf , and put it in /boot/extlinux/, there is
> > extlinux.conf is my attached file.
> >    4. cd /boot/extlinux
> >        ln -sf ../vmlinuz-2.6.32.4.lp.enhance.24-netbook-atkbd
> > vmlinuz-2.6.32.4.lp.enhance.24-netbook-atkbd
> >   5. extlinux -U /boot/extlinux/
> >    6. cat  /usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sda
> >    7. reboot
> >
> > the screen always show "No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!",
> > and then i type "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.4.lp.enhance.24-netbook-atkbd" or
> > "/vmlinuz-2.6.32.4.lp.enhance.24-netbook-atkbd",
> > "vmlinuz-2.6.32.4.lp.enhance.24-netbook-atkbd", but the screen always
> show
> > "Could not find kernel
> image:vmlinuz-2.6.32.4.lp.enhance.24-netbook-atkbd".
> >
> > could you help me? tell me  how i will do and debug  extlinux in my case.
> > I am  sorry my English is very poor. please help me!
> >
>
> Since it looks like your /boot partition is quite small, would you be
> willing to send a binary image of it?
>
> Something like:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda bs=8225280 count=510 | gzip -9 > bootpart.gz
>
>        -hpa
>
> --
> H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.
>



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