ExtLinux Bootloader Information

Jim Gifford clfs at jg555.com
Mon Dec 22 23:51:05 MST 2008


Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> I assume an initramfs is possible via some kind of "initrd" type line?
> I'll have to look.
>
> (I give a udev by-id symlink for root=, which is resolved by initramfs.)
>
>   
APPEND initrd=initrd.img

That will take care of that
>> extlinux --install /boot
>> dd if=/dev/zero of={/dev to root drive} bs=446 count=1
>>     
This one removes the old mbr without affecting the partition table
>> dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of={/dev to root drive}
>>     
>
>   
This actually loads the syslinux supplied mbr.

Been playing around with it all night very surprised with it's features.


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