[syslinux] Getting vmlinux & initrd.gz file

Josef Siemes jsiemes at web.de
Tue Jul 22 04:01:45 PDT 2003


Hi,

Ronald Kuwawi <ron4ld at optushome.com.au> schrieb am 22.07.03 00:00:12:
> & someone on Gentoo mailing list pointed out that I should try
> syslinux, Ok, downloaded that, done
> the steps:
> copybs a: a:dos.bss 
> and
> syslinux a: 
> 
> but when I did this:
> copy vmlinux a:
> copy initrd.gz a: 
> 
> I couldn't find the filename called vmlinux and initrd.gz 
> on the unzipped syslinux-2.05.zip downloaded from kernel.org
> 
> where can I get them?

This should have been the kernel and initrd from your linux distribution. Try to 
get them from the installation media. Syslinux is only a boot loader, and comes 
without the linux kernel and the initrd.

Regards,

Josef
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