[syslinux] extlinux from syslinux 4.04 failed hard after choosing bzImage.

[Piotr Karbowski]

On 19.11.2011 16:11, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today I replaced grub(1) with syslinux on my laptop, after rebooting to
> syslinux and selecting kernel I got massive freeze along with colorful
> output to screen - http://i.imgur.com/lFjFc.jpg
>
> I think I tried everything, even doing esc and writing after boot:
> /bzImage-3.1.0, after enter I had the same freeze with the same screen
> artefacts.
>
> How I installed extlinux:
> mkdir /boot/extlinux
> extlinux --install /boot/extlinux
> cp /usr/share/syslinux/menu.c32 /boot/extlinux/
>
> and the config file /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf:
> TIMEOUT 30
> UI menu.c32
>
> MENU TITLE Boot Menu
> MENU COLOR title 1;37;40
> MENU COLOR border 30;40
> MENU COLOR unsel 37;40
>
> #title Gentoo bzImage-3.1.0
> #kernel /bzImage-3.1.0 quiet rootfstype=ext4 luks enc_root=/dev/sda2 lvm
> root=/dev/mapper/vg-rootfs
> #initrd /initramfs.cpio.gz
>
> LABEL Gentoo bzImage-3.1.0
> KERNEL /bzImage-3.1.0
> INITRD /initramfs.cpio.gz
> APPEND quiet rootfstype=ext4 luks enc_root=/dev/sda2 lvm
> root=/dev/mapper/vg-rootfs
>
> LABEL test
> MENU LABEL asdasd
> KERNEL /bzImage
> INITRD /initramfs
> APPEND root=/dev/md2 softraid
>
> I tested extlinux into KVM virtual machine and there everything was ok.
> After booting livecd and reinstalling grub's mbr I was able boot it just
> fine - so the kernel image is correct.
>
> Any idea what could went wrong? I never saw such issue.

FWIW just builded syslinux from git, reinstalled mbr and extlinux to 
/boot/extlinux with no luck. Removing UI menu.c32 also changed nothing.

-- Piotr.