[syslinux] help with porting patch from 1.62 to 1.75

[Jim Wright]

Do you have "label h" misspelled as "labal h" in the actual file?


On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Mathias Koerber wrote:

> > Mathias Koerber wrote:
> > It would make more sense just to load the boot sector from the secondary
> > drive and call it with DL=81h.  SYSLINUX basically has all that code
> > already, although I can't remember for sure if it's enabled in the
> > SYSLINUX module.  Try entering "localboot 0x81" ISOLINUX-style; I believe
> > it should work in 1.75 SYSLINUX; if not, let me know.
> 
> Hmm. Wouldn´t that leave the DoC as hda and the real HD as hdb, which
> is not desired?
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mathias Koerber
> mathias at koerber.org
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