[syslinux] help with porting patch from 1.62 to 1.75

[H. Peter Anvin]

Mathias Koerber wrote:
> 
> Hmm. Wouldn´t that leave the DoC as hda and the real HD as hdb, which
> is not desired?
> 

Swapping the BIOS won't change anything in that respect.  The answer, 
however, is "no"; the DoC doesn't show up as /dev/hd* at all; it 
probably shows up as /dev/ftla, /dev/mtd0 or /dev/nftla if anything, I 
believe.


> Anyway, I tried it with syslinux-1.75 and this cfg:
>     # cat sys*cfg
>     serial 0 38400
>     default h
>     prompt 1
>     timeout 30
>     display boot.msg
>     label rescue
>       kernel vmlinuz
>       append console=ttyS0,38400 initrd=rescue.gz ramdisk_size=8192 
> root=/dev/ram
>     label linux
>       kernel vmlinuz
>       append vga=788 initrd=bootcram.gz root=/dev/ram init=/linuxrc
>     label debian
>       kernel vmlinuz
>       append initrd=root.bin lang= vga=788 root=/dev/ram
>     label redhat
>       kernel vmlinuz
>       append initrd=initrd.img lang= ramdisk_size=7168 vga=788
>     label f
>       kernel memdisk
>       append initrd=boot.img
>     labal h
>       localboot 0x81
> 
> First it complains about some unknown keyword in sys.linx.cfg
> (7 times!)
> 
> If I try
> boot: localboot 0x81
> Could not find kernel image: localboo.t
> 
> If I try the target h:
> Could not find kernel image: h
> 
> thanks and regards
> 
>> Note that some other boot loaders/MBRs might have a problem with booting
>> from a non-80h hard drive.  SYSLINUX won't have any trouble.
>>
>>     -hpa
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