[syslinux] help with porting patch from 1.62 to 1.75

[Mathias Koerber]

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

Oops, I had, but fixing that also didn´t solve that problem.

I also noticed that even syslinux-1.75/memdisk
does not work with the boot.img (label f) below,
it keeps saying ¨ invalid or corrupt kernel image¨
:-(


>
>
> 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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Mathias Koerber
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