[syslinux] Re: Initrd or Cdrom as root

[Josef Siemes]

Hi,

"Dead2" <dead2 at circlestorm.org> schrieb am 15.05.02:
> > 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"
> > ---

seems I don't get the context here. Is isolinux ignoring 'append'?
In which version?

I think there was some syslinux version (1.70? 1.71? some -pre?)
that ignored 'append', but that's fixed in the latest version.

Regards,

Josef

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