[syslinux] Syslinux cannot load memtest 86

Stephen Brown sbrown7 at umbc.edu
Mon Feb 3 14:17:40 PST 2003


On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Eaden McKee wrote:
> >
> > I get the error "Cannot load a ramdisk with an old kernel image."

<<snip>>
>
> No, this is news to me.  Not many people use the old kernel image format
> anymore.  It looks like isolinux thinks you're trying to load an initrd
> (which is impossible with the old kernel format.)  This is pretty
> clearly an isolinux bug.

IIRC, memtest isn't in a kernel format in the first place -- it is a
standalone "OS"

Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu




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