[syslinux] installing syslinux on a fresh system (SATA)

Mau Z zmau1962 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 12:29:41 PST 2014


Hi!

It's funny, but I was unable to find an answer to my question.

I am building an embedded system (x86).
I want to install syslinux on a fresh system.

So, I am booting from a USB LINUX CD (Ubuntu 12.04 in this case).
1) I must have an ext2 partition (This is my application).
2) I understand that I must have a FAT partition (to install
syslinux). Correct ?

So, basically I understand that I must create 2 partitions.
My disk is 4 GB of data, So I am thinking that the following
partitioning is best :
1) 10 MB for syslinux + syslinux.config + bzImage
2) 3.99 GB for ext2

Now, remember that I am working on a fresh system (not even formatted maybe).
Is there a recipe for what I should do ?

Same question goes for EXTLINUX (if that is the offer). What do do
when booting from a cd on a fresh system ?


Thanks
Mau


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