[syslinux] Suggestion for improving syslinux man page.

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jun 9 11:35:21 PDT 2003


James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I would suggest putting this syslinux web page info near the top of the
> man page.
> I was using debian, which has all the linux images being linux.bin.
> So, to make my own boot disk, I thought I would just copy bzImage to the
> floppy as linux.bin. Big mistake, if one does that it will not work, and
> one gets output like: -
> 0400
> AX:0208
> BX:0200
> CX:0002
> DX:0000
> etc.
> 
> Just renaming "linux.bin" to "linux" made it all work.
> See below for what I suggest adding to the man page :-
> 


http://syslinux.zytor.com/errors.php

It's listed as "common problems".

	-hpa




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