[syslinux] installing extlinux on image files

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:56 AM, aep <aep at exys.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> is there any way to install extlinux on a _not_ mounted ext4 image?

Not practically.

> 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.

If you consider them beyond you, there is no way to just copy it in and
expect useful results.

> The devices are simple images that run in virtualbox, so do i really need
> all of the blocksize magic?
>
> thanks.

-- 
-Gene