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

[Mau Z]

Thanks all,

I am a shame a little bit....

The first command was incorrect (as some of you said).
The second command was correct, the problem was the I forgot to put "sudo"
in front of the command.

So it is simply    "extlinux --install /mount/point/subdir"       (as
Mattias and Ady said).


Sorry, and thanks all.



On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Mattias Schlenker
<ms at mattiasschlenker.de>wrote:

> 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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