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Offline TechMonkey

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Bootloader, what bootloader?!?
« on: September 06, 2012, 04:06:15 PM »
Hi all, obviously I'm new here, been impressed w/ TC so far, I have it running on a frugal install on the internal flash storage of an HP thinclient.

So then I decided to modify the boot params, perhaps create separate entries. I expected the usual grub menu.lst, etc. but nothing is to be found!

ls -la /mnt/sda1: lost+found, and tce. That's it. fdisk -l verifies that sda1 is the only partition.

So, *what* bootloader is being used, and *where* the heck is it? (I've searched the WIKI and FAQ and forums, vague references to various loaders being possible, but nothing actually helpful.)

Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Bootloader, what bootloader?!?
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2012, 04:19:27 PM »
Look at /sda1/tce/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
You might want to google extlinux to see how to add menus.

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Re: Bootloader, what bootloader?!?
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2012, 05:25:22 PM »
Ah, thank you. I suggest modifying the wiki/faq to more explicitly explain that the default bootloader is, in fact, EXTLINUX*, and the aforementioned path to the .conf.


*http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/EXTLINUX

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Re: Bootloader, what bootloader?!?
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2012, 06:21:29 PM »
The wiki consists of user generated content ;)

Forum login is valid for wiki as well.
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Re: Bootloader, what bootloader?!?
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2012, 09:00:29 AM »
That, and there is no default bootloader as such. The installer would install syslinux for fat32, and manual installs of grub, lilo or friends are also supported.
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Re: Bootloader, what bootloader?!?
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2012, 12:13:03 PM »
I'm confused by your reply. I used the installer on the .ISO, went w/ defaults so it's formatted as EXT3/4. I was never asked to choose a bootloader, so obviously/apparently SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX is the default. That's all I was saying.

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Re: Bootloader, what bootloader?!?
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2012, 12:56:48 PM »
I was mainly referring to syslinux and extlinux having different paths. As mentioned, feel free to edit the wiki if you find places in need of improvement.
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