[syslinux] Syslinux cannot load memtest 86

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Feb 3 19:51:06 PST 2003


Eaden McKee wrote:
> 
> Was it an APPEND= line right at the top, that contained initrd=blahblah, that 
> somehow became the default append, and was applied to memtest?

Yes.  This also means that the isolinux.cfg file that you posted wasn't
actually the one you used.

An APPEND line before any LABEL line is a default.

> Because that was what it turned out to be, so I'm very happy that it's working 
> now :)
> 
> So for the record, using isolinux 2.0.0 ( whoops, didn't see 2.0.1 ) and 
> memtest86 v 3,0, putting 
> LABEL memtest
> KERNEL memtest
> in isolinux.cfg, where memtest = memtest.bin renamed to memtest, works :)
> Eaden

	-hpa




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