[syslinux] Isolinux Information

Gerhard Zuber gerhard.zuber at gmx.de
Mon Oct 28 04:22:44 PST 2002


> I have managed to get isolinux to load the operating system but when it
comes
> time to mount (something?) in response to the root=??? part of the append
> line the operation stops and I land in a shell without having loaded any
of
> the firewall files to the ram disk.  All of the system files have loaded.
>
> When I boot off floppy, all files are in the root directory of the floppy
and
> the append line contains root=/dev/fd0U1680 (oversize floppy) and all is
> well.  With isolinux, all the files are in the /isolinux with the
operating
> system.
>
> What do I use for the root= part of the append line?

try something like this:

label cdrom246
  kernel vmlinuz.246
  append initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 ip=off


Gerhard




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