[Voyage-linux] Boot VL with extlinux or lilo on Soekris 5501

[Meftah Tayeb]

so explain / share how ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arun Khan" <knura9 at gmail.com>
To: "Voyage-Linux" <voyage-linux at voyage.hk>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Boot VL with extlinux or lilo on Soekris 5501


> __SOLVED__
>
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Meftah Tayeb <tayeb.dotnet at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> i think lilo is enough
>> thank you
>
> Yeah lilo is enough but any changes in lilo.conf and you got to go
> through lilo to update.
>
> Looking @ extlinux, it has provides flexibility in that any changes in
> extlinux.conf are automatically picked up.
>
> Anyway, I experimented a bit with a Debian Squeeze base install (the
> method should be applicable to Voyage Linux)
>
> 1. apt-get install extlinux syslinux
> 2. extlinux-install /dev/sda  (this installs the mbr.bin to /dev/sda
> MBR, creates /boot/extlinux and copies ldlinux.sys)
> 3. cp  menu.c32 to /boot/extlinux/  (optional if you want to a text
> based menu of the entries)
> 4. Create a sample extlinux.conf file (refer to the grub.cfg for
> kernel and initrd options)
>    See below for my extlinux.conf file.  Make sure that KERNEL,
> APPEND, INITRD entries match your system.
> 5. apt-get purge grub-pc  (do this only after you are satisfied that
> system is booting fine with extlinux)
>
> I will try out this method on the images on my CF cards going into the
> embedded devices.
>
> <sample extlinux.conf>
>
> UI menu.c32
> TIMEOUT 30
> PROMPT 1
>
> DEFAULT Debian
>
> MENU TITLE Debian Options
>
> LABEL Debian
>    MENU LABEL 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64'
> KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
> APPEND root=UUID=9adeb8bf-d0ac-4f5e-b5b1-d7e71ee4a58e ro quiet
> INITRD /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
>
> LABEL Debian_Fail_Safe
>    MENU LABEL 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (recovery 
> mode)'
> KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
>        APPEND root=UUID=9adeb8bf-d0ac-4f5e-b5b1-d7e71ee4a58e ro single
> INITRD /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
>
> </sample extlinux.conf>
>
> -- Arun Khan
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