USB-HDD boots up in EXTLINUX

Forum: USB booting
Topic: USB-HDD boots up in EXTLINUX
started by: LloydM

Posted by LloydM on June 14 2005,01:40

I use my USB drive with Win and DSL, so I use "dsl-usbinstall hdd" to get a single partition. However, when I boot up (with BIOS set to either USB-HDD or USB-ZIP) I get "EXTLINUX" instead of "ISOLINUX" or "SYSLINUX". EXTLINUX doesn't like any DSL boot options I use, and I can't pull up the F2/F3 boot option screen. What are the options I can use with EXTLINUX?

-Thanks! LloydM

Posted by clivesay on June 14 2005,02:09

You can use all the regular boot options. Edit the extlinux.conf file on your USB drive to add the options you want. I run from my usb-hdd usb drive every day. I love it!

Chris

Posted by xmodule and lang options not wor on June 14 2005,08:47

I tried adding boot options to the extlinux.conf file, but only some seem to work. When I boot blank or linux24 I still get asked for KB language and xmodule. The other options like vga, frugal, mydsl, etc are recognized. Here's what I have in extlinux.conf:

DEFAULT linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce nodma noapic quiet BOOT_IMAGE=/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX frugal restore=sdb1 mydsl=sdb1

Why are the lang and xmodulw options ignored?

-Thanks! LloydM

Posted by clivesay on June 14 2005,11:58

Are you saving the /home/dsl/.xserverrc file in your filetool.lst for backup?

Chris

Posted by LloydM on June 15 2005,19:06

I had .xinitrc but not .xserverrc in filetool.lst. I added .xserverrc and it's working now, but I get a "resolutions are different from defaults" warning message before the xserver starts up. I assume I can ignore it.

The extlinux config file doesn't have all the prompt, labels, timeouts, etc commands of the syslinux config file. Can I copy a syslinux config file to the extlinux conf file, or are the syntaxes different?

-Thanks, LloydM