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Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 reiserfs 19G 17G 2.5G 87% /
/dev/sda4 reiserfs 23G 1.4G 22G 6% /storage
/dev/sda3 ext3 14G 509M 13G 4% /mnt/lfs
/dev/sdb1 vfat 3.8G 9.1M 3.8G 1% /mnt/usb
/mnt/usb/
|-- boot
| |-- vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp
| `-- vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.27.7-smp
|-- install.sh
`-- syslinux
|-- ldlinux.sys
|-- lilo
|-- mbr.bin
|-- menu.c32
|-- syslinux
|-- syslinux.cfg
`-- vesamenu.c32
2 directories, 10 files
PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 100
DEFAULT /syslinux/menu.c32
MENU TITLE SysLinux Bootloader
LABEL S120
MENU LABEL Slackware 12.0
MENU DEFAULT
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp
APPEND ro root=/dev/sda2
LABEL S122
MENU LABEL Slackware 12.2
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.27.7-smp
APPEND ro root=/dev/sda2
#!/bin/bash
set -e
TARGET=""
MBR=""
# Find out which partition or disk are we using
MYMNT=$(cd -P $(dirname $0) ; pwd)
while [ "$MYMNT" != "" -a "$MYMNT" != "." -a "$MYMNT" != "/" ]; do
TARGET=$(egrep "[^[:space:]]+[[:space:]]+$MYMNT[[:space:]]+" /proc/mounts | cut -d " " -f 1)
if [ "$TARGET" != "" ]; then break; fi
MYMNT=$(dirname "$MYMNT")
done
if [ "$TARGET" = "" ]; then
echo "Can't find device to install to."
echo "Make sure you run this script from a mounted device."
exit 1
fi
if [ "$(cat /proc/mounts | grep "^$TARGET" | grep noexec)" ]; then
echo "The disk $TARGET is mounted with noexec parameter, trying to remount..."
mount -o remount,exec "$TARGET"
fi
MBR=$(echo "$TARGET" | sed -r "s/[0-9]+\$//g")
NUM=${TARGET:${#MBR}}
cd "$MYMNT"
clear
echo "-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-"
echo " Welcome to Slax boot installer "
echo "-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-"
echo
echo "This installer will setup disk $TARGET to boot only Slax."
if [ "$MBR" != "$TARGET" ]; then
echo
echo "Warning! Master boot record (MBR) of $MBR will be overwritten."
echo "If you use $MBR to boot any existing operating system, it will not work"
echo "anymore. Only Slax will boot from this device. Be careful!"
fi
echo
echo "Press any key to continue, or Ctrl+C to abort..."
read junk
clear
echo "Flushing filesystem buffers, this may take a while..."
sync
# setup MBR if the device is not in superfloppy format
if [ "$MBR" != "$TARGET" ]; then
echo "Setting up MBR on $MBR..."
./syslinux/lilo -S /dev/null -M $MBR ext # this must be here to support -A for extended partitions
echo "Activating partition $TARGET..."
./syslinux/lilo -S /dev/null -A $MBR $NUM
echo "Updating MBR on $MBR..." # this must be here because LILO mbr is bad. mbr.bin is from syslinux
cat ./syslinux/mbr.bin > $MBR
fi
echo "Setting up boot record for $TARGET..."
./syslinux/syslinux -d syslinux $TARGET
echo "Disk $TARGET should be bootable now. Installation finished."
echo
echo "Read the information above and then press any key to exit..."
read junk
http://syslinux.zytor.com/
http://www.slax.org/
BY: Pejman Moghadam
TAG: syslinux
DATE: 2010-07-20 14:45:35