[syslinux] Syslinux cannot load memtest 86

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Feb 3 16:18:06 PST 2003


Giulio Orsero wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 14:45:20 -0800, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>What would the config in isolinux.cfg to boot the memtest86 floppy image? ( 
>>>it's a 1.44 )
>>
>>The best bet for the floppy image is to not use isolinux, but make the
>>floppy image the El Torito boot image.
>>
> 
> 
> FYI, I'm using ISOLINUX 2.00 2002-10-25, this is extract of isolinux.cfg
> ==
> ...
> label 2
>     kernel mem28
>  
> label 3
>     kernel mem30
> ...
> ===
> memtest86 2.8 and 3.0 boot ok both in vmware and real hardware.
> 
> mem28 and mem30 are the precompiled memtest images found in the memtest
> tarball.
> 

Cool.  Looks like you don't have the issue that the other reporter has.
 I wonder if they have upgraded to the new kernel format.

	-hpa




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