[syslinux] Boot image from hard drive from syslinux initiated by a floppy disk boot

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Oct 4 13:43:16 PDT 2006


mailbox.t wrote:
> I have been trying to find the information by searching through the 
> archives and google, so I am sorry if this question has been asked 
> before I just have not been able to find an answer.
> I have a syslinux boot floppy which loads to the boot prompt, I wish to 
> load a .gz image which is on my hd0 0 by using memdisk as the kernel. I 
> have tried to kernel memdisk append root=/dev/hd0  0 (also just using 
> /hd0)  initrd=mini.gz and   kernel memdisk initrd=/dev/hd0 0/mini.gz and
> a multitude of other things to try to accomplish this. But each time it 
> responds "mini.gz cannot be found.
> hd0 0 loads fine using chain.c32 from the floppy
> If anybody could give me any advice I would be most grateful
> Thank you

That is not supported.  memdisk doesn't load anything; it just relies on 
  syslinux to load whatever needs to be loaded.  syslinux always loads 
from the medium it was run from.

	-hpa




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