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extlinux for Debian
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In order to use extlinux as your bootloader, you should do the following steps:
1. install extlinux:
# apt-get install extlinux
2. install a syslinux theme to optain a graphical menu displayed to select the
kernel to boot (optional):
# apt-get install syslinux-common syslinux-themes-debian-squeeze
or:
# apt-get install syslinux-common syslinux-themes-debian-lenny
3. create all necessary config files:
# extlinux-update
4. optionally alter defaults (like timeout etc.) in /etc/default/extlinux and
running extlinux-update again.
5. install extlinux into your harddisk (e.g. sda):
# extlinux-install /dev/sda
6. if you were using grub before, remember to disable automatic re-installation
of grub into the mbr with:
# dpkg-reconfigure -plow grub-pc
7. be happy :)
Notes:
* the current MBR is saved to /boot/mbr-${DEVICE}.old. In case of troubles,
you can restore it with the following command:
# dd if=/boot/mbr-${DEVICE}.old of=/dev/${DEVICE} bs=466 count=1
Remember that MBR backups are not rotated which means that every call of
extlinux-install will overwrite the previous backup with a new one.
-- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:56:04 +0200
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