[syslinux] Problem with menu.c32]

Michael Jarka mjarka at aps.anl.gov
Fri Aug 31 13:40:20 PDT 2007


Andrew Stuart wrote:
> 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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Actually I have tried both USB and PS2 keyboards

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