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

[Mattias Schlenker]

Am 24.03.2014 15:35, schrieb Mau Z:
> Thanks
>
> I let GParted create the file system. It was done on a rescue disk of 
> Ubuntu 12.04  (GParted 0.11.0)
>
> I think that the problem is in my command line.

extlinux --install /mount/point/subdir

usually does the job. I suspect the filesystem was created using 
libparted's ext2 code. Unmount and run

mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1

Then mount again as ext4:

mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt/Ext2_partition

Then mkdir and run extlinux again.

Regards,
Mattias

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