Talk:Syslinux

pxelinux
Would it be cool if I add something on pxelinux? That way I can refer to it from LTSP.
 * I will --Alon Bar-Lev 16:29, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

gpt (bios)
Should be added to page, but I'm too lazy

install gdisk

emerge --ask sys-apps/gptfdisk

Choose your disk, go to expert mode, change attributes, set "Legacy BIOS bootable" flag

gdisk /dev/sda

x

a

your partition (1)

2

w

install gptmbr

cat /usr/share/syslinux/gptmbr.bin > /dev/sda

install {sys,ext,pxe}linux

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kaey (talk • contribs) 1 May 2012

bogus warning about overwriting the entire disk
The following warning about overwriting the entire disk is bogus:

First, install the boot sector provided by Syslinux. Use extra care with this command; if  is not given it will overwrite the entire disk rather than just the first 440 bytes:

without  is fine when used on a block device. I will remove this remark if there are no objections --Chithanh (talk) 19:25, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

openrc efivars
As per gentoo-dev mailing list,

The documentation should be updated to say that with OpenRC 0.28 that you'll have to remount efivars as RW before you can install the bootloader (e.g., grub-install)

The command I use locally to remount rw (since I have configured efivars to be mounted read-only in fstab) is

mount -o remount,rw /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

from mattst88@gentoo.org

--Rage (talk) 01:16, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

/boot symlink
The instruction to make the symlink :

root # ln -snf. /boot/boot

Appears to not (not always ?) work as intended. See : https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8252790.html

Thinking of it there really seems to be something off :

If issued from the root folder (as happens to be when reaching bootloader installation, when following the handbook), then it would make the link to /, (which can be on a different partition than /boot), that makes no sense

If issued from inside /boot/, this appears to fail as shown in the link

I suggest to eliminate the relation to the installed system's / completely, so to change this instruction to :

root # cd /boot

root # ln -ns. boot

Ashie (talk) 20:35, 18 August 2018 (UTC)