[syslinux] USB key: CBIOS line printed, nothing else
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Sep 6 17:14:20 PDT 2006
Josh Lehan wrote:
>
>> I do have to admit that I never saw that CBIOS prompt at all.
>> I do however get the message that the kernel "Linux" could not be
>> found, when the key is FAT32 and detected as floppy (the bios has no
>> other option for me).
>
> That's strange to not get the CBIOS prompt. Usually, you get one line
> of text containing the string "CBIOS" (or "EBIOS"). Maybe this line
> only appears when the SYSLINUX.CFG file could not be found at all. Try
> putting in a SAY line in your SYSLINUX.CFG file, to know if it's being
> found or not. In your case, SYSLINUX may indeed be finding the
> SYSLINUX.CFG file correctly, but then not finding anything beyond that....
>
It's relatively new; I think it was added in 3.11.
-hpa
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