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

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 14:29:44 PST 2011


On Nov 19, 2011 4:49 PM, "Slawomir Latkowski" <slawomir.latkowski at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Try older versions of syslinux if it's possible.

Start with 3.86 or 3.82 if you do.

> Best regards
> Sławomir Latkowski
>
> Wysłane z iPhone'a / Sent from iPhone
>
> 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

Tried removing quiet yet?

> >> 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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