[syslinux] extlinux from syslinux 4.04 failed hard after choosing bzImage.
Piotr Karbowski
piotr.karbowski at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 07:11:26 PST 2011
Hi,
Today I replaced grub(1) with syslinux on my laptop, after rebooting to
syslinux and selecting kernel I got massive freeze along with colorful
output to screen - http://i.imgur.com/lFjFc.jpg
I think I tried everything, even doing esc and writing after boot:
/bzImage-3.1.0, after enter I had the same freeze with the same screen
artefacts.
How I installed extlinux:
mkdir /boot/extlinux
extlinux --install /boot/extlinux
cp /usr/share/syslinux/menu.c32 /boot/extlinux/
and the config file /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf:
TIMEOUT 30
UI menu.c32
MENU TITLE Boot Menu
MENU COLOR title 1;37;40
MENU COLOR border 30;40
MENU COLOR unsel 37;40
#title Gentoo bzImage-3.1.0
#kernel /bzImage-3.1.0 quiet rootfstype=ext4 luks enc_root=/dev/sda2 lvm
root=/dev/mapper/vg-rootfs
#initrd /initramfs.cpio.gz
LABEL Gentoo bzImage-3.1.0
KERNEL /bzImage-3.1.0
INITRD /initramfs.cpio.gz
APPEND quiet rootfstype=ext4 luks enc_root=/dev/sda2 lvm
root=/dev/mapper/vg-rootfs
LABEL test
MENU LABEL asdasd
KERNEL /bzImage
INITRD /initramfs
APPEND root=/dev/md2 softraid
I tested extlinux into KVM virtual machine and there everything was ok.
After booting livecd and reinstalling grub's mbr I was able boot it just
fine - so the kernel image is correct.
Any idea what could went wrong? I never saw such issue.
-- Piotr.
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