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

[Gene Cumm]

On Jan 13, 2014 6:51 PM, "Mau Z" <zmau1962 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I understand you (mostly).
> 0) How do i "install the MBR code as well and to activate your partition."
> 1) "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt"  -->> successfully completed.
> 2) "mkdir /mnt/extlinux"  -->> successfully completed.
> 3) "extlinux --install /mnt/extlinux"     -->> does not work.
>     Funny, but it it seems that there is no such thing as extlinux
anymore.

But there is.  extlinux is the installer that lives on but EXTLINUX was
merged in.  Did you try the above?  What version?

--Gene