Re; [syslinux] SYSLINUX on bootabel floppy with rootfs.gz
Kent Robotti
dwilson24 at nyc.rr.com
Fri Sep 30 10:15:46 PDT 2005
>I am trying to make a bootable linux floppy. I have compiled the kernel and cre
>ated a rootfs and compressed this to rootfs.gz.
>
>I made this SYSLINUX.CFG
>
>LABEL linux
> KERNEL bzImage
> append root=/dev/fd0/rootfs.gz
>
>When booting the kernel stop and ask to insert a root disk and press ENTER.
>Pressing ENTER gives me a Kernel Panic.
It should probably be like this.
LABEL linux
KERNEL bzImage
append initrd=rootfs.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw
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