[syslinux] Re: Initrd or Cdrom as root

[Dead2]

> I suspect that whatever is he using for creating the images (what is this
> "isolinux.cfg"?) has modified the boot command line and that is why it
> fails. It works fine for me (and worked since the time I wrote it around
> 2.4.0 or so).

Your assumption is correct!

It seems that isolinux does not pass the append parameters at all.
The booting works fine when I made your patch use cdrom as root
no matter what.

> This is my isolinux.cfg file:
> ---
> DEFAULT zoac
>
> LABEL zoac
>     KERNEL /boot/bzImage
>     APPEND "enableapic rootcd=1"
> ---

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