[syslinux] installing extlinux on a fresh system. Why does it fail ?

[Mattias Schlenker]

Am 24.03.2014 14:13, schrieb Mau Z:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to install extlinux on a fresh system.
>
> Here are my steps :
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> A) Create an ext2 partition. I did the following steps :
>
> 1) boot from CD
> 2) Activate GParted
> 3) Create Partition table on the "fresh disk" (/dev/sda).
> 4) Create 1 ext2 partition (and mark its flag as "boot").

Did you use mkfs.ext2 to create the filesystem or let GParted create it? 
Which version of GParted? Which version of libparted? There were some 
bugs regarding quite recent versions of GParted resulting in filesystems 
larger than the partition. And I do not trus "mkfs ext2" within parted 
as well.

> B)mkdir /mnt/Ext2_partition
> C) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/Ext2_partition

I experienced some bad behaviour up to unclean filesystems using the 
ext2 and ext3 drivers in kernels from 3.2 upwards. You might want to 
mount explicitly using the ext4 driver.

Regards,
Mattias

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