[syslinux] syslinux 2.06, won't boot => kernel size pb?

[Jean-Yves Bitterlich]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to build up a booting usbstick. works fine with syslinux. However I have some troubles putting my own kernel image (bzImage) instead of that of a distribution (i.e. already compiled). The only difference I noticed is that the "pre-compiled" kernel is about 1.4M big whereas mine 1.5M.  The Syslinux Homepage confirm that "this version [...] can now handle large kernel" but it does not tell which version ... 

should I move to 2.08 or should have this limitation already been solved in 2.06?

troubles are: it boots, it loads the kernel, it loads the initrd.img and then ... black-screen, keyboard LEDs (scroll/caps) blinking ...

any idea ?

I'm using syslinux 2.06; linux-2.4.24 (initrd and ramdisk=16M support). the kernel is 1576905byte big, the initrd.img  1796237bytes. syslinux.cfg is:
>> display boot.msg
>> prompt 0
>> timeout 100
>> kbdmap syskeyde.kbd
>> default linux
>> label linux
>> kernel linux.os
>> append vga=791 initrd=linux.img splash=silent quiet root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount
(also tried with root=/dev/ram0)

Jean-Yves

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