[syslinux] Using syslinux to boot xen without initrd

[Gene Cumm]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Erwan Velu via Syslinux
<syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> 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??

Other common questions:

- Where did the build come from (though likely not relevent)?

- Did you try it without the menu?  Often times a warning/error is
hidden by the menu.

-- 
-Gene