[syslinux] isolinux
Giulio Orsero
giulioo at pobox.com
Wed Mar 27 14:12:24 PST 2002
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:33:51 -0800 (PST), Mr Simon Harrison
<si1356 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Sorry to bother you about this but after trashing
>8 CD-Rs I'm out if ideas :-).
Use CD-RWs !
>kernel config files from the slackware CD. The
>thing always comes up with the error 'unable to mount
>root fs 01:00' etc... It seems to load the ramdisk
>OK.
01:00 is the ramdisk, so maybe it does not find the initrd or cannot load it
into ramdisk.
>Do I need to rdev the kernel if using isolinux?
No need if you setup the config file correctly.
>thought that's not necessary. Do I need to specify
>the right ramdisk size?
No.
>Any help would really be appreciated (even if this
>isn't
>strictly an isolinux problem. The same kernel boots
>fine from Lilo off the hard-disk.
You could show your isolinux.cfg.
However, if you can't solve your isolinux problems and just want to boot off
a CD, and don't have space issues, you can make the CD bootable using a boot
floppy image (be it syslinux, lilo, grub based).
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giulioo at pobox.com
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