[syslinux] Using syslinux to boot xen without initrd

[Erwan Velu]

Can you tell us the Syslinux version you use ?
Le 8 sept. 2015 3:21 PM, "Ingrid Ribeiro Galvez via Syslinux" <
syslinux at zytor.com> a écrit :

> Hello all,
>
> I have a Linux kernel image with Xen compiled  for an embedded system. It
> doesn't need an initrd as everything required for it to boot is already in
> the final kernel image, and it works perfectly. But I'm having problems to
> boot the Xen image without an initrd. I'm following this guideline
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Xen for my syslinux configuration
> file, but without including an initrd. So it looks like this:
>
>
> LABEL xen
>
>   MENU DEFAULT
>   KERNEL mboot.c32
>   APPEND xen-4.3.2.gz dom0_mem=262144 --- ../vmlinuz-2.6.31.8
> console=tty0 root=/dev/sda1 ro
>
> What happens is that it tries to load but keeps looping back to the
> bootloader menu. I think it might be expecting the initrd image. Anybody
> knows how to set the configuration file for xen so it doesn't need an
> initrd??
>
> Thank You!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ingrid
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