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cowlick

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Registered: 2013-10-13

Posts: 73

[Solved]Failed to load ldlinux.c32

New install. Using bios, syslinux bootloader, and on boot get the "Failed to load ldlinux.c32" error message. Tried re-downloading arch.iso to no avail.

Googled problem and tried -O ^64bit option as follows:

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

and instead of formatting it returned an invalid option error. Tried many variations of the command to no avail. Is there a correct way to perform this command?

Edit: Unfortunately, had to install gpt/grub, but at least it's working.

Last edited by cowlick (2016-08-12 22:27:18)

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DELL Inspiron 14-3452, 32GB emmc, 4 GB RAM

boki

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Registered: 2016-09-18

Posts: 1

Re: [Solved]Failed to load ldlinux.c32

I ran into the same problem in a new installation with syslinux and ext4.  http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php? … system#ext pointed to same advice:

Users should rather (manually) disable the 64bit feature in the mke2fs command when creating / formatting a boot volume with ext4; otherwise, the bootloader (as of version 6.03) will fail.

I was also stuck with invalid option error, until I remembered that my shell (zsh) tends to interpret a few symbols in a command line.  Escaping the caret with a backslash worked for me:

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

cowlick

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Registered: 2013-10-13

Posts: 73

Re: [Solved]Failed to load ldlinux.c32

@boki. Thanks for the reply. I'm glad it worked. I use bash shell but I will research the caret symbol and how it works in bash. Thanks again.

Edit: Saw this in Newbie forum:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=217214

Last edited by cowlick (2016-09-19 11:01:55)

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DELL Inspiron 14-3452, 32GB emmc, 4 GB RAM