[syslinux] Version 3.02 floppy boot hangs.

Merlin softlib at turbolinux.com.cn
Thu Jan 6 20:09:32 PST 2005


Hello,

  When I upgrade syslinux from 2.13 to 3.02. my linux floppy doesn't
  boot anymore.

  steps:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=fdimg bs=18k count=160
  mkdosfs fdimg
  syslinux fdimg
  mount -o loop fdimg /mnt
  cp files/* /mnt/
  umount /mnt

  then use memdisk load fdimg

  the files includes: vmlinuz initrd syslinux.cfg message.txt f1.txt ...

  it only prompts 1 line:
  SYSLINUX 3.02 2005-01-04 Copyright ...
  then hangs.

  But version 2.13 works very well.

  there is the syslinux.cfg
---------------------------------------
DEFAULT 1
DISPLAY message.txt
PROMPT 1 
TIMEOUT 300
F1 message.txt
F2 f2.txt
F3 f3.txt
F4 f4.txt
F5 f5.txt

LABEL 1
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0 vga=791
            
LABEL 2
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0 vga=791 noconf freecd

LABEL 3
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0 vga=771 noconf freecd runfloppy
            
LABEL 4
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0

LABEL 5
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0 freecd pxeserver
            
  
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Best regards,
 Merlin                            mailto:softlib at turbolinux.com.cn






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