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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Sergii Kolisnyk wrote:
> 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.
> 

Or just put the kernel and initrd on the syslinux partition and mount it 
as /boot.

Now, if you do that, you don't want to put the /boot prefix in the 
syslinux configuration file, since syslinux will see the root *of the 
filesystem* as /.

	-hpa