[syslinux] failed when boot the kernel image on the hard disk from syslinux on a floppy

[Sergii Kolisnyk]

Hi,

SYSLINUX isn't designed to work that way.
It can boot kernel only from same filesystem from which it's loaded.
You need GRUB or GRUB4DOS for your task.
SYSLINUX can be used to chainload GRUB.

Best regards,
Sergii Kolisnyk

2008/8/21 Hu Jia Yi <jyhu at asmpt.com>:
> After formatting a floppy to MSDOS format and using  syslinux /dev/fd0,
> I successfully installed ldlinux.sys to the root directory of the
> floppy.
>
> Then I created a syslinux.cfg  under the root directtory of this floppy
> to load the linux kernel in my first hard disk, 3rd partition, boot
> folder. The file system
>
> of this partition is ext3. The floppy has a FAT file system. This config
> file is listed below.
>
>
>
> When I restarted PC and booted from this floppy , it failed with a
> message
>
> "Could not find kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic"
>
>
>
> Did I make a wrong configuration? I am sure the names of linux kernel
> and initrd are correct.
>
>
>
> PROMPT 0
>
> TIMEOUT 30
>
> DEFAULT linux
>
> LABEL linux
>
> SAY Now booting the kernel from SYSLINUX...
>
> KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic
>
> APPEND root=/dev/sda3 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
>
>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Hu Jia Yi
>
> Ext: 20430
>
> Tel: 65-67510430
>
>
>
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