[syslinux] ext4, boot error after writing irrelevant files on same partition

Jur van der Burg jur at digiater.nl
Wed May 20 00:49:10 PDT 2015


How big is the ext4 partition? I've seen issues like this with a 1Tb partition.
Using a smaller partition (< 20Gb) I've never seen this problem.

Jur.

On 20-5-2015 9:16, Denys Fedoryshchenko via Syslinux wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I faced very strange problem, after i install extlinux, on ext4 partition and i wrote some files (they doesn't touch syslinux files), system refuse to boot and gives "Boot error".
> I checked ldlinux.sys, file is fine, checksum is intact and etc.
> Running extlinux -i /mountpoint sure fixes the problem.
>
> What are the steps to troubleshoot the problem?
>
> Thanks
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