Syslinux - Sep 2007 - extlinux can't find extlinux.conf file?

When I try to boot my system using extlinux I get the error:

EXTLINUX 3.51 2007-06-10 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2007 H. Peter Anvin
Could not find kernel image: linux
boot: ????????????????????????????????

I've searched the archives and it would appear that extlinux can't find 
the extlinux.conf file....  Is there something glaring that I am missing?

TIA - Phil



I have a 32MB CF card partitioned like this:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         245       31344   83  Linux

I created the filesystem 
        "mke2fs /dev/sda1"

Mounted it
        "mount /dev/sda1 /mount/sda1"

Created the MBR 
        "cat /root/syslinux-3.51/mbr/mbr.bin > /dev/sda"

Installed extlinux
        "/root/syslinux-3.51/extlinux -i /mount/sda1"

I created the extlinux.conf file in /mount/sda1, it contains:

        root at pnewl01:/mount/sda1# cat extlinux.conf
        DISPLAY hello

        LABEL 1
                KERNEL bzImage.phil

Here's the directory listing of my /dev/sda1 (mounted on /mount/sda1) 
directory:

        root at pnewl01:/mount/sda1# ls -lt
        total 2216
        -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  674260 2007-09-11 11:48 System.map
        -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1570040 2007-09-11 11:48 bzImage.phil
        -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      45 2007-09-11 11:48 extlinux.conf
        -r--r--r-- 1 root root   10771 2007-09-11 11:46 extlinux.sys

UPDATE:

- Changed "DISPLAY" to "SAY" (I started using a file to
display a message,
just wanted to say "hello" so I knew extlinux found the config file, 
didn't change the command to SAY)
- Saw that "hello" was being displayed, so I knew extlinux was finding
the
.conf file.
- Copied "bzImage.phil" to "linux"
- Changed "KERNEL bzImage.phil" to "KERNEL linux", now it
loads.

Why does extlinux ignore my "KERNEL bzImage.phil" command, but likes 
"KERNEL linux"?

TIA (again) Phil








Phil Newlon/Corporate/Wendys 
09/11/2007 12:10 PM

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extlinux can't find extlinux.conf file?






When I try to boot my system using extlinux I get the error:

EXTLINUX 3.51 2007-06-10 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2007 H. Peter Anvin
Could not find kernel image: linux
boot: ????????????????????????????????

I've searched the archives and it would appear that extlinux can't find 
the extlinux.conf file....  Is there something glaring that I am missing?

TIA - Phil



I have a 32MB CF card partitioned like this:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         245       31344   83  Linux

I created the filesystem 
        "mke2fs /dev/sda1"

Mounted it
        "mount /dev/sda1 /mount/sda1"

Created the MBR 
        "cat /root/syslinux-3.51/mbr/mbr.bin > /dev/sda"

Installed extlinux
        "/root/syslinux-3.51/extlinux -i /mount/sda1"

I created the extlinux.conf file in /mount/sda1, it contains:

        root at pnewl01:/mount/sda1# cat extlinux.conf
        DISPLAY hello

        LABEL 1
                KERNEL bzImage.phil

Here's the directory listing of my /dev/sda1 (mounted on /mount/sda1) 
directory:

        root at pnewl01:/mount/sda1# ls -lt
        total 2216
        -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  674260 2007-09-11 11:48 System.map
        -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1570040 2007-09-11 11:48 bzImage.phil
        -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      45 2007-09-11 11:48 extlinux.conf
        -r--r--r-- 1 root root   10771 2007-09-11 11:46 extlinux.sys

Phil_Newlon at wendys.com wrote:
> 
>         root at pnewl01:/mount/sda1# cat extlinux.conf
>         DISPLAY hello
> 
>         LABEL 1
>                 KERNEL bzImage.phil
> 
I just now looked at this again, and realized what you're trying to do
here.  You need "PROMPT 1" in order for it to stop.  You have a label,
which means if someone enters "1" they will get
"bzImage.phil".

However, there is nothing in the above file which tells it what to do if
the user doesn't enter a command, and since it doesn't have a PROMPT, it
won't stop and ask the user what to do, either.  Instead it will boot
the default command, which is "linux".  Since "linux"
doesn't match your
label (which is just "1"), it will be considered a filename.

So you can add either "DEFAULT 1" or "PROMPT 1" (or both) to
the above;
"DEFAULT 1" would set the default command to "1", which
matches your
label.  "PROMPT 1" (the '1' here is just a boolean flag, 0 or
1, it
doesn't have anything to do with your label string) tells it to stop and
ask the user for input.

	-hpa

Ah ha, that makes sense!




----- Original Message -----
From: "H. Peter Anvin" [hpa at zytor.com]
Sent: 09/14/2007 05:56 PM
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [syslinux] extlinux can't find extlinux.conf file?



Phil_Newlon at wendys.com wrote:
> 
>         root at pnewl01:/mount/sda1# cat extlinux.conf
>         DISPLAY hello
> 
>         LABEL 1
>                 KERNEL bzImage.phil
> 
I just now looked at this again, and realized what you're trying to do
here.  You need "PROMPT 1" in order for it to stop.  You have a label,
which means if someone enters "1" they will get
"bzImage.phil".

However, there is nothing in the above file which tells it what to do if
the user doesn't enter a command, and since it doesn't have a PROMPT, it
won't stop and ask the user what to do, either.  Instead it will boot
the default command, which is "linux".  Since "linux"
doesn't match your
label (which is just "1"), it will be considered a filename.

So you can add either "DEFAULT 1" or "PROMPT 1" (or both) to
the above;
"DEFAULT 1" would set the default command to "1", which
matches your
label.  "PROMPT 1" (the '1' here is just a boolean flag, 0 or
1, it
doesn't have anything to do with your label string) tells it to stop and
ask the user for input.

	-hpa

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