Hi, I am having a problem booting from a disk installed with extlinux. The exact configuration that worked with version 3.36, when upgraded to 3.50, appears to still work on the same disk. But if I zap out the disk (i.e. start from scratch again) and install extlinux, the disk fails to boot. Extlinux stops at the boot: prompt after displaying "Could not find kernel image: linux". It could be that extlinux is not reading its config file (installed under /extlinux, and yes I've run "extlinux -i" on the directory). I can type the path to my kernel at the boot: prompt and the kernel does boot. Appreciate any help :) Regards, .lzs
If it's helpful, this happens both in VMware Server (emulating SCSI disks) and Qemu-kvm (emulating IDE disks). Regards, .lzs Lai Zit Seng wrote:> Hi, > > I am having a problem booting from a disk installed with extlinux. The > exact configuration that worked with version 3.36, when upgraded to > 3.50, appears to still work on the same disk. But if I zap out the disk > (i.e. start from scratch again) and install extlinux, the disk fails to > boot. Extlinux stops at the boot: prompt after displaying "Could not > find kernel image: linux". > > It could be that extlinux is not reading its config file (installed > under /extlinux, and yes I've run "extlinux -i" on the directory). I can > type the path to my kernel at the boot: prompt and the kernel does boot. > > Appreciate any help :) > > Regards, > > .lzs > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic.
Lai Zit Seng wrote:> Hi, > > I am having a problem booting from a disk installed with extlinux. The > exact configuration that worked with version 3.36, when upgraded to > 3.50, appears to still work on the same disk. But if I zap out the disk > (i.e. start from scratch again) and install extlinux, the disk fails to > boot. Extlinux stops at the boot: prompt after displaying "Could not > find kernel image: linux". > > It could be that extlinux is not reading its config file (installed > under /extlinux, and yes I've run "extlinux -i" on the directory). I can > type the path to my kernel at the boot: prompt and the kernel does boot. >That does, indeed, mean that it's not finding its configuration file. I'll see if I can replicate the problem. -hpa
Lai Zit Seng wrote:> Hi, > > I am having a problem booting from a disk installed with extlinux. The > exact configuration that worked with version 3.36, when upgraded to > 3.50, appears to still work on the same disk. But if I zap out the disk > (i.e. start from scratch again) and install extlinux, the disk fails to > boot. Extlinux stops at the boot: prompt after displaying "Could not > find kernel image: linux". > > It could be that extlinux is not reading its config file (installed > under /extlinux, and yes I've run "extlinux -i" on the directory). I can > type the path to my kernel at the boot: prompt and the kernel does boot. > > Appreciate any help :) >I think I've found the bug and fixed it. Please test out syslinux-3.51-pre1. This really underscores the importance of testing out prereleases, especially once release candidate status has been announced. We could have caught this one sooner. -hpa