[syslinux] Stumped by extlinux After OS Upgrade

Ferenc Wagner wferi at niif.hu
Tue Nov 2 04:57:20 PDT 2010


John.Florian at dart.biz writes:

> extlinux doesn't understand file systems like, say grub, does it?

Extlinux and Grub both have various "stages".  The difference is that
the second stage of Extlinux, which understands the filesystem, itself
resides in the boot filesystem, while it resides in the slack area for
Grub.  This is why you can break Extlinux with filesystem operations, by
messing with its second stage.  However, starting with the config file
everything is read by the filesystem code, so they are safe to play with
(doing so does not require bootloader interaction, like LILO does).
-- 
Regards,
Feri.




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