TinyCore install has suddenly stopped listening to extlinux.conf

[DHeadshot]

Nothing seems to have changed, but my TinyCore 6.1 installation has suddenly stopped paying any attention to the extlinux.conf file!  (Note that this is in a virtual-machine, not the one on the laptop I've mentioned before).  I've used this installation fine since 2015 but now it's defaulting to 800x600 instead of 1024x768 and is refusing to use the qwerty/uk keyboard!  Neither the installation nor the virtual-machine have been updated recently.  Anyone know what's going on?

[curaga]

Maybe an unclean shutdown corrupted files? Run fsck on the partitions.

[DHeadshot]

Maybe an unclean shutdown corrupted files? Run fsck on the partitions.

OK.  I've done that now and it hasn't fixed it - I still get 800x600 with US keymap:

[Juanito]

Did you install another distro in the interim that might have altered or replaced your bootloader?

[DHeadshot]

No?
The only thing I did in the interim was work on this.  That said, I did keep suspending the VM instead of shutting it down for a few months, so did that do something when I eventually shut it down?  I wouldn't think so, but then I don't really know enough about how SYSLINUX works...

[polikuo]

Maybe you should re-install your bootloader ?

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tce-load -i syslinux
sudo su
dd if=/usr/local/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda bs=440 count=1
extlinux -i /mnt/sda1/tce/boot
fdisk /dev/sda
# set your partition as active

Note that "/mnt/sda1/tce/boot" is the default path to extlinux.conf for tc-install.sh
If you don't mind, please post your config file on the forum so we can help.