Talk:Syslinux
Before creating a discussion or leaving a comment, please read about using talk pages. To create a new discussion, click here. Comments on an existing discussion should be signed using
~~~~
:
A comment [[User:Larry|Larry]] 13:52, 13 May 2024 (UTC) : A reply [[User:Sally|Sally]] 07:56, 5 December 2024 (UTC) :: Your reply ~~~~
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 count=1
is not given it will overwrite the entire disk rather than just the first 440 bytes:
root #
dd bs=440 conv=notrunc count=1 if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda
dd
without bs=440 conv=notrunc count=1
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