[syslinux] Convert ISOLINUX into PXELINUX

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jun 24 09:09:48 PDT 2008


Mathieu Terrasson wrote:
> Hi,
> I work on a solution for school including Eyeos and thinclient, iwant
> to convert syplinux ISO into syplinux Pxeboot, is there a way to
> do that ?
> 
> Actually i'm using PXELINUX, When I boot the SYPLINUX.GZ (extract from
> the iso) I get this error :
> 
> VFS: Cannit open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(3,5)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,5)
> 
> Is the error comes from PXELINUX configuation, or the image ?
> 

It's coming from the image.  You have successfully booted the image, but 
  it is then looking for the CD-ROM and not finding it.

	-hpa




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