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buntwo

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Registered: 2012-02-14

Posts: 14

[SOLVED] Syslinux boot error every time

Every time I reboot, I get a Syslinux "Boot error" message. If I plug in a live USB, chroot into my hard drive, run syslinux-install_update -i -a -m, then reboot, it works fine, but it will give the error again next boot. My /boot partition is a 200Mb btrfs partition, starting on sector 2048, and my root partition is a btrfs raid 0 over 2 ssds.

Last edited by buntwo (2015-09-19 03:15:24)

anatolik

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Registered: 2012-09-27

Posts: 458

Re: [SOLVED] Syslinux boot error every time

Check your syslinux.cfg and make sure you specified correct root partition.

UPD:
AFAIK brtfs support in syslinux is experimental and it might happen that it does not fully support all the btrfs fs format features. For example btrfs raid was not supported last time I checked it. I would use ext4 for syslinux boot partition as this solution is better tested.

Last edited by anatolik (2015-09-15 03:35:36)

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CarlD

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From: London

Registered: 2013-11-23

Posts: 128

Re: [SOLVED] Syslinux boot error every time

Every time I reboot, I get a Syslinux "Boot error" message. If I plug in a live USB, chroot into my hard drive, run syslinux-install_update -i -a -m, then reboot, it works fine, but it will give the error again next boot. My /boot partition is a 200Mb btrfs partition, starting on sector 2048, and my root partition is a btrfs raid 0 over 2 ssds.

Did you mount root as a btrfs subvolume? If so, you need to amend the syslinux.cfg.

buntwo

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Registered: 2012-02-14

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Syslinux boot error every time

Thanks for the replies. I reformatted my boot partition as ext4 and it works now. I assume syslinux still isn't stable on btrfs subvolumes.