[syslinux] syslinux and booting CD's

jason jason at monsterjam.org
Thu Feb 13 06:49:33 PST 2003


hey, Ive got your syslinux booting a floppy disk that boots an image via
NFS just fine and dandy..

default linux-jason
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux-jason
        kernel vmlinuz
        append  append=root=/dev/nfs rw
nfsroot=xx.xx.xx.xx:/var/local/user/thinpc,rw,v3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,udp,nolock,posix
vga=792 ip=dhcp
label linux-egg
        kernel vmlinuz
        append  append=root=/dev/nfs rw
nfsroot=xx.xx.xx.xx:/export/save/thinpc,rw,v3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,udp,nolock,posix
vga=792 ip=dhcp

but when I try to put this onto an iso image and boot it, it fails..
Here is my mkisofs command
mkisofs -o /home/jason/burnme.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c
isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table
/home/jason/mp3s   (all on one line)

and my dir looks like this

[jason at zim mp3s]$ pwd
/home/jason/mp3s
[jason at zim mp3s]$ ls -al
total 1128
drwxr-xr-x    4 jason    jason        4096 Feb 12 22:23 ./
drwxr-xr-x   59 jason    jason        4096 Feb 13 09:37 ../
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          186 Feb 12 22:23 boot.msg*
drwxr-xr-x    2 jason    jason        4096 Jan 28 12:49 disk1/
drwxr-xr-x    2 jason    jason        4096 Jan 28 13:30 disk2/
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       149767 Feb 12 22:23 initrd.img*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         9404 Feb 12 22:24 isolinux.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         7060 Feb 12 22:23 ldlinux.sys*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          412 Feb 12 22:23 syslinux.cfg*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          122 Feb 12 22:23 syslinux.cfg.old*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       944611 Feb 12 22:23 vmlinuz*
(note, the isolinux.bin is directly from isolinux.)

but when I boot the CD, all I get is
Syslinux..  Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin
Could not find kernel image: linux
boot:

what am I doing wrong?

regards,
Jason


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