[syslinux] isolinux

[seth at cql.com]

My isolinux.cfg looks like this:


default linux
.
.
.
label linux
  kernel bzImage
  append initrd=initrd.gz devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram
init=/linuxrc

(append is one line; the mailer split it into two.  init=/linuxrc is part of
the append line.)

On 12-Jan-2003 Torsten Foertsch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to create a bootable linux cd using isolinux. I have created a 
> directory to hold the cd tree that contains
> 
>   tmp/boot/vmlinuz
>   tmp/boot/initrd
>   tmp/isolinux.bin
>   tmp/isolinux.cfg
>   ...
> 
> The isolinux.cfg file consists of one line
> 
>   DEFAULT /boot/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/initrd
> 
> The iso image is created by
> 
>   mkisofs -R -b isolinux.bin -c isolinux.cfg -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4
> \
>           -boot-info-table -o cd.iso tmp/
> 
> When I then try to boot from this cd it says: 
> 
>   Unknown keyword in config file.
>   Could not find kernel image: linux
>   boot:
> 
> Now I can type in a command line:
> 
>   /boot/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/initrd
> 
> and the kernel boots as it is meant to.
> 
> What is wrong? Why doesn't it boot automatically?
> 
> I have already tried several variants of isolinux.cfg including
> 
>   LABEL blah
>   KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
>   APPEND initrd=/boot/initrd
> 
> I have tried syslinux versions 1.62 and 2.00. All the same.
> 
> Then I put some debugging output into parsecmd.inc. It seems to read
> arbitrary 
> characters from the file. I am not an asm programmer. So I would not really 
> rely on my debugging output.
> 
> What is wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> Torsten
> 
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E-Mail: seth at cql.com
Date: 12-Jan-2003
Time: 23:38:14

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