[syslinux] isolinux cd hangs at booting kernel
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed May 29 12:33:09 PDT 2002
Dan Osterrath wrote:
> I've created a bootable cd with isolinux but it can't load the kernel.
> It detects everything fine, decompresses the initrd, loads and decompresses the kernel and then tries to boot the kernel. But after that the computer hangs.
>
There are also suspiciously few dots after "Loading linux"... did you
copy this by hand?
> Here's the screen dump:
> ISOLINUX 1.73 2002-05-26 Copyright (C) 1994-2002 H. Peter Anvin
> isolinux: Starting up, DL = 9F
> isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = 9F
> isolinux: Sector size appears to be 0800
> isolinux: Loading main image from LBA = 00000AF2
> isolinux: Sectors to load = 0004
> isolinux: Loaded boot image, verifying...
> isolinux: Main image read, jumping to main code...
> isolinux: Root directory at LBA = 0000001D
> isolinux: isolinux directory at LBA = 0000001E
> isolinux: About to load config file...
> isolinux: Configuration file opened...
> Loading linux
> Loading initrdgz.img.....................................................................................
> Ready.
> Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel.
>
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