[syslinux] installing syslinux on a fresh system (SATA)

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 14 15:54:19 PST 2014


On 01/14/2014 10:34 AM, Mattias Schlenker wrote:
> Am 14.01.2014 17:48, schrieb Mau Z:
>>  
>> prompt 1
>> DEFAULT linux
>> LABEL linux
>> SAY Now booting my first extlinux
>> KERNEL /bzImage
>> APPEND ro root=/dev/sda1
>>
>> but I got the same results........
>>
> 
> 1. Use "LINUX" instead of "KERNEL" to specify that a linux kernel
>    should be booted
> 2. "LINUX" or "linux" now should be treated as a reserved word (because
>    of 1.)
> 
> 
> So, this might work better:
> 
> prompt 1
> DEFAULT lnx
> LABEL lnx
> SAY Now booting my first extlinux
> LINUX /bzImage
> APPEND ro root=/dev/sda1
> 

Syslinux doesn't have "reserved words" in quite that way.  Using "linux"
as a label name is perfectly fine.

	-hpa




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