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Unturned

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[SOLVED] Syslinux reports "no such file or directory" during boot

Hello,

I made a minimal linux system with a recent kernel and busybox to a disk image and it boots fine with grub2 inside QEMU. However grub takes up around 15mb of space so I decided to switch to Syslinux instead to make the root file system smaller. I followed the installation instructions in the Syslinux page in the wiki (installed it according to the "manual install" section) but now when I tries to boot the image with QEMU syslinux just says

loading tinylinux... failed, no such file or directory

Also, I noticed that the syslinux.cfg file is not being created after I run

extlinux --install /boot/syslinux

which i presume it should be created because the wiki didn't mention anything about manually creating syslinux.cfg in the installed directory.

Here's the output of fdisk -l tl.img

Device     Boot    Start      End    Sectors      Size     Id    Type
tl.img1       *    2048   1048575    1046528       511M    83    Linux

There's only one ext4 partition inside the disk image and it has been marked as bootable with cfdisk. Also the partition table has been formatted as MBR.

Here's my syslinux.cfg inside the directory /boot/syslinux:

PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 30
DEFAULT tinylinux

LABLE tinylinux
    LINUX ../bzImage
    APPEND root=/dev/sda1 quiet init=/bin/sh

I couldn't find similar errors on Google and I don't think this is strictly Arch related (although I used Arch as my base working station to install Syslinux, not sure if this counts), so I posted this here.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Last edited by Unturned (2018-01-20 10:27:08)

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Re: [SOLVED] Syslinux reports "no such file or directory" during boot

The stock .cfg file is installed directly to /boot/syslinux as part of the package; you'll need to copy it over to the image manually.

In your self made config, "LABLE" is a typo, which may be causing the error you're getting. Also, did you read the caveat about syslinux on ext4 partitions?

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php? … system#ext

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Unturned

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Re: [SOLVED] Syslinux reports "no such file or directory" during boot

It works now! Thank you very much @WorMzy!
"label" is actually one of the few words that I frequently misspell all the time

Last edited by Unturned (2018-01-20 10:28:16)