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willowisha

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Registered: 2017-02-14

Posts: 2

Failed to load ldlinux.c32

I have made the USB flash installation media perfactly. And the liveCD is available to download and install arch linux into my computer . So the liveCD is good.
I install arch linux following the installation guide, and use the syslinux to boot.
but!!!
after all the things i have done, when i reboot the computer and wish to boot from my SSD disk in which I install the arch linux, it failed.

the problem is :
Failed to load ldlinux.c32
Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.

I guess that the problem is in MBR and syslinux, but I don't know how to fix it.

somebody help !

Many thanks in advance !

Last edited by willowisha (2017-02-14 18:06:59)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Failed to load ldlinux.c32

Did you follow all of the steps in the wiki to install and configre syslinux?

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willowisha

Member

Registered: 2017-02-14

Posts: 2

Re: Failed to load ldlinux.c32

yes I think。 And finally I changed syslinux instead of grub to be the bootloader.
use cfdisk to make the /mnt/boot to be bootable
then reboot it, and I use the command line

techmod

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Registered: 2016-02-29

Posts: 20

Re: Failed to load ldlinux.c32

Same problem here also creating a boot partition with

mkfs.ext4 -O ^64bit -L boot /dev/sdX

results in bash throwing

wrong fs type

errors at me.

I tried to copy ldlinux.c32 manually from ../syslinux to /boot, but it doesn´t help also. Has somebody managed this? Seems like every week there is somethingnew going on.

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anatolik

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Registered: 2012-09-27

Posts: 458

Re: Failed to load ldlinux.c32

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sy … ad_ldlinux seems related to your issue @techmod.

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mhertz

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2010-06-19

Posts: 681

Re: Failed to load ldlinux.c32

This command fixes the issue, just correct partition-name accordingly:

mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit /dev/sda1

This is what I use for partitioning in my unattended-install shell-script:

#!/bin/bash
parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 10GiB
parted -s /dev/sda set 1 boot on
parted -s -- /dev/sda mkpart primary ext4 10GiB -0
mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit /dev/sda1
mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit /dev/sda2
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/home

I have the new naming scheme disabled with 'ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules' and above makes two partitions on my SSD; /root of 10GiB and /home with remaining free space.

Last edited by mhertz (2017-03-10 10:22:01)