[syslinux] Issue with timeout option?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Mar 18 21:09:54 PDT 2009


Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> Confirmed that the following worked  with 3.73 and before
> ONTIMEOUT bz28.7
> 
> Tried ESC  to boot: prompt and bz28.7 worked with 3.74pre5
> So, it only seems to be with the timeout option. What I eventually found to 
> work was this with the 3.74pre5.
> ONTIMEOUT bz28.7 initrd=ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0
> 
> With that in the isolinux.cfg it will correctly load the timeout kernel.. 
> Since it worked with 3.73 is this a design change or what. Is this because the 
> label and kernel name are the same?
>  

Could you please post your entire configuration file?

	-hpa

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