[syslinux] syslinux 2.04 and linux 2.4.21?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jul 16 12:24:15 PDT 2003


Andreas Haumer wrote:
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> Hi!
> 
> I have problems booting linux 2.4.21 with syslinux 2.04
> from floppy.
> 
> Booting with this combination I get the following error:
> 
> Loading kernel................
> Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.
> 
> (Note: there are exactly 16 dots ".", it this is relevant)
> 
> kernel          817674 07-16-2003  16:36  kernel

... this means the kernel was downloaded, and it get a read error after
the kernel was fully downloaded.  At that point it should start looking
for initrd.gz in the root directory.  I also see a file with a "long"
filename (lilo.conf) precede it in the directory.  I wonder if there is
a connection here.

> syslinux cfg        84 07-16-2003  16:35  syslinux.cfg
> LILO~1   CON      1335 07-16-2003  14:39  lilo.conf
> INITRD   GZ     349474 07-16-2003  15:17  initrd.gz
> MAP              25088 07-16-2003  15:08  map
> ldlinux  sys      7828 07-16-2003  16:21  ldlinux.sys
> BOOT         <DIR>     07-16-2003  16:05  boot
>         8 files           1 201 589 bytes
>                             106 496 bytes free
> 

What happens if you create a floppy without LILO?

	-hpa




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