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

[Slawomir Latkowski]

Try older versions of syslinux if it's possible.

Best regards
Sławomir Latkowski

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On 19 Nov 2011, at 20:37, Piotr Karbowski <piotr.karbowski at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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