[syslinux] installing extlinux on image files

[Dwight Schauer]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:56 AM, aep <aep at exys.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> is there any way to install extlinux on a _not_ mounted ext4 image?

I would be interested in this as well.

> I can easily write the extlinux.sys manually to a fixed inode, and prepend a
>  prebuild mbr, but is there anything else i am missing?
> patch_file_and_bootblock does a couple of magic things, that are beyond me.
> The devices are simple images that run in virtualbox, so do i really need
> all of the blocksize magic?

The images I use are for kvm, but the same principle. I don't
partititon them, one file system per image. Not having to mount would
be good, because that is one less step in my install/build process
that would require root.