[syslinux] newbie

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Oct 29 21:44:03 PST 2006


eli wrote:
> hi. sorry about this newbie post, but i'm lost. i have tried for
> several days, looking at documentations, but failed. i am trying to
> make a bootable usb drive. i would like to put everything into 1
> directory on the usb drive (the kernel image, boot.msg, and the rest).
> as of now (with everything in the root directory) my syslinux.cfg file
> looks like this:
> default vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz PMEDIA=usbflash
> i have tried dumping everything (except the syslinux config file) into
> a directory called linux and putting a /linux/ before everything (ex.
> default linux/vmlinuz). the problem is that it returns an error "could
> not find linux/v.mli". it seems that it is predisposed to seeing the
> file as a 7 character name and thinks that my dir is part of the name.
> is there anything i could do? perhaps change directories right away
> and then begin the boot procedure? and how?
> 

SYSLINUX (the FAT filesystem version) doesn't support subdirectories.

	-hpa




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