[syslinux] Version 3.02 floppy boot hangs.
Merlin
softlib at turbolinux.com.cn
Thu Jan 6 20:09:32 PST 2005
Hello,
When I upgrade syslinux from 2.13 to 3.02. my linux floppy doesn't
boot anymore.
steps:
dd if=/dev/zero of=fdimg bs=18k count=160
mkdosfs fdimg
syslinux fdimg
mount -o loop fdimg /mnt
cp files/* /mnt/
umount /mnt
then use memdisk load fdimg
the files includes: vmlinuz initrd syslinux.cfg message.txt f1.txt ...
it only prompts 1 line:
SYSLINUX 3.02 2005-01-04 Copyright ...
then hangs.
But version 2.13 works very well.
there is the syslinux.cfg
---------------------------------------
DEFAULT 1
DISPLAY message.txt
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 300
F1 message.txt
F2 f2.txt
F3 f3.txt
F4 f4.txt
F5 f5.txt
LABEL 1
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0 vga=791
LABEL 2
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0 vga=791 noconf freecd
LABEL 3
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0 vga=771 noconf freecd runfloppy
LABEL 4
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0
LABEL 5
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0 freecd pxeserver
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Best regards,
Merlin mailto:softlib at turbolinux.com.cn
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