(on Wikipedia)
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A bootloader with various companion tools.

Seems fantastic, but only in the sense that various other tools use it in magical automated ways.

• isohybrid is part of the syslinux group of tools.

• Includes SYSLINUX, which is Linux-specific.

• 2016-03-28 - 4.06 on Slackware 14.1
• 2016-03-26 - 4.05 on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
• 2010-01-05 - 3.84 on Foresight Linux lite-2.1.0

• I must have accidentally used syslinux in the past, using various other distributions. I had only once or twice been subject to its manual use, but it was otherwise magically delt-with by other tools.

2010-01-05 - 3.84 ∞

This was first introduced to me by Foresight Linux, which had a proper 132x60 textmode.

wget www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.84.tar.gz
tar -xvvzf syslinux-3.84.tar.gz
cd syslinux-3.84
su
mkdir -p /boot/extlinux
extlinux/extlinux --install /boot/extlinux

it responds with:

/boot/extlinux is device /dev/root

.. which means nothing to me.

copy all of the syslinux directory there?

mbr/ has stuff in it.. instructions talk about

cat mbr.bin > /dev/XXX

.. and setting the appropriate partition as active.. (what does that mean, flag it as bootable with cfdisk maybe?) .. what partition would that be? whatever partition has /boot on it, I'd guess. How does mbr.bin know about the installation location for syslinux?

Last updated 2020-02-11 at 23:02:48