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

Piotr Karbowski piotr.karbowski at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 07:43:20 PST 2011


On 20.11.2011 14:08, Gene Cumm wrote:
> No, KERNEL != LINUX.  KERNEL first guesses based on file extension and
> the fall back if no matches found is to load it like a Linux kernel,
> then similar to LINUX (except LINUX forces the behavior).

What you think about making it more clear in syslinux.txt? That could 
prevent some people like me from such issues.

> SYSLINUX only works for RAID-1 MDs where the MD data is at the end of
> the disk (1.0 specifically).

Right, and that is I am happy as I have problems with 0.9 metadata and 
wanted bootloader what can boot from at least 1.0 metadata.

-- Piotr.




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