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

[Gene Cumm]

On Nov 19, 2011 7:17 PM, "Gene Cumm" <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 18:03, Tyler Durden <tylerdu at bounced.me> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Last week I stumbled across the same bug. Couldn't boot kernel 3.1.0
with
> > exactly the same symptoms as you (screen full of weird characters).
> > Fortunately, there's a simple workaround I found here:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=647603
> >
> > Just rename the kernel image to something that doesn't end with zero
(e.g.
> > bzImage-3.1) and it will boot just fine.
> >
> > Somehow extlinux chokes on kernel image names with zero in the last
place.
> > Strange...
>
> It's a feature for the file type "guessing" documented in
> syslinux.txt.  I should have seen that one.

Try the LINUX directive instead KERNEL.  ".0" means NBP (network boot
program.

--
-Gene