I am using isolinux to load the floppy firewall project. I have a bootable floppy and the configuration works well. I have managed to get isolinux to load the operating system but when it comes time to mount (something?) in response to the root=??? part of the append line the operation stops and I land in a shell without having loaded any of the firewall files to the ram disk. All of the system files have loaded. When I boot off floppy, all files are in the root directory of the floppy and the append line contains root=/dev/fd0U1680 (oversize floppy) and all is well. With isolinux, all the files are in the /isolinux with the operating system. What do I use for the root= part of the append line? Thanks!
CD boot does not support 1680. You must choose from either 1.44 or 2.88 Isolinux is used to boot linux from 'flat' cdrom files. it does NOT use the boot floppy method. If you want an example of this, look into: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bucdrom.html -----Original Message----- From: Richard Stofer [mailto:rstofer at pacbell.net] Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:26 PM To: syslinux at zytor.com Subject: [syslinux] Isolinux Information I am using isolinux to load the floppy firewall project. I have a bootable floppy and the configuration works well. I have managed to get isolinux to load the operating system but when it comes time to mount (something?) in response to the root=??? part of the append line the operation stops and I land in a shell without having loaded any of the firewall files to the ram disk. All of the system files have loaded. When I boot off floppy, all files are in the root directory of the floppy and the append line contains root=/dev/fd0U1680 (oversize floppy) and all is well. With isolinux, all the files are in the /isolinux with the operating system. What do I use for the root= part of the append line? Thanks! _______________________________________________ SYSLINUX mailing list Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com Unsubscribe or set options at: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux
> I have managed to get isolinux to load the operating system but when itcomes> time to mount (something?) in response to the root=??? part of the append > line the operation stops and I land in a shell without having loaded anyof> the firewall files to the ram disk. All of the system files have loaded. > > When I boot off floppy, all files are in the root directory of the floppyand> the append line contains root=/dev/fd0U1680 (oversize floppy) and all is > well. With isolinux, all the files are in the /isolinux with theoperating> system. > > What do I use for the root= part of the append line?try something like this: label cdrom246 kernel vmlinuz.246 append initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 ip=off Gerhard