Syslinux - May 2002 - Re: Initrd or Cdrom as root

> I suspect that whatever is he using for creating the images (what is this
> "isolinux.cfg"?) has modified the boot command line and that is
why it
> fails. It works fine for me (and worked since the time I wrote it around
> 2.4.0 or so).
Your assumption is correct!

It seems that isolinux does not pass the append parameters at all.
The booting works fine when I made your patch use cdrom as root
no matter what.
> This is my isolinux.cfg file:
> ---
> DEFAULT zoac
>
> LABEL zoac
>     KERNEL /boot/bzImage
>     APPEND "enableapic rootcd=1"
> ---
-=Dead2=-

Dead2 wrote:
> 
>>This is my isolinux.cfg file:
>>---
>>DEFAULT zoac
>>
>>LABEL zoac
>>    KERNEL /boot/bzImage
>>    APPEND "enableapic rootcd=1"
>>---
> 
Ditch the quotation marks!

	-hpa