Porteus

You nailed it, fanthom: syslinux is a 32-bit program. Thank you!

Loading the 32-bit compatibility library solved the problem.

So it was indeed something simple after all.

I've marked this solved. Perhaps it should be moved to another subforum, because there's no bug here.

Thanks roadie. Some additional notes: * The command runs correctly from PartedMagic loaded into RAM (I think PM is based on Slackware too). * The command fails with same error when I boot Porteus without the copy2ram cheat code. * From the working directory where I execute the extlinux command, the ...

Yes, both drives manually mounted.

I've encountered the same error running versions 2.1 and 3.0 of Porteus 64-bit LXDE. Hoping you can help. Here are the main steps: * Boot into Porteus using copy2ram, noauto and login=root cheat codes * Run extlinux installer command (extlinux/extlinux -i /mnt/sdb1/boot/syslinux) * Receive error mes...