[syslinux] Problem with menu.c32]

Andrew Stuart andrew at shopcusa.com
Fri Aug 31 13:15:55 PDT 2007


Michael Jarka wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>   
>> Paul Whittaker wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> "MENU DEFAULT" isn't a label, it's just a marker.  You must have a "MENU 
>>> LABEL" as well.  Try:
>>>
>>> LABEL Fedora 6 Client
>>> MENU LABEL Fedora 6 Client (default)
>>> MENU DEFAULT
>>> KERNEL fc6/vmlinuz
>>> APPEND initrd=fc6/initrd.img linux=i686 ramdisk_size=256000 ks=nfs:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/kickstart/fc6/client.cfg
>>>     
>>>       
>> Actually try something like:
>>
>> LABEL fedora6
>> MENU LABEL Fedora 6 Client (default)
>> MENU DEFAULT
>> KERNEL fc6/vmlinuz
>> APPEND initrd=fc6/initrd.img linux=i686 ramdisk_size=256000 
>> ks=nfs:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/kickstart/fc6/client.cfg
>>
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>>     
> Thanks, your  suggestion resolved the problem.
> But now I ran into another problem.
> On some HP DC7700 systems the menu appears but I am unable to navigate it.
> The keyboard appears to be dead.
> Works great on other systems.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Jarka
>
>   
Could you be more specific about the hardware? One helpful tidbit would 
be 'I am using a [PS/2|USB] keyboard'.

-Andrew




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