similar to: ISOlinux problems

An update to the problem I reported earlier - A kind list reader, Michael K Ter Louw, suggested I try syslinux v1.67, and viola!, my problem went away completely. So something between 1.67 and 1.71 got broke with respect to isolinux. Hmm... Another kind list reader, Seth Kurtzberg, was kind enough to make and effort to send an updated initrd; although it didn't solve the problem, it was

rename the VMlinuz*.* to file 'vmlinuz' (no quotes ofcourse). a bootfloppy leaves me enough diskspace, not 860KB. format as FAT12 (ofcourse), install Syslinux (I do this on Win2K with syslinux.exe A:, win9x: syslinux.com A:) my example: http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc4/fdboot.img unfortunately no Linux involved. If I could only show a Knoppix bootfloppy (but it's part of a

Howdy to all, We've been using isolinux quite successfully for quite some time now, and I have come across a couple of laptops where isolinux balks at my config file.. Upon booting on this systems, the image background appears corrupted, and at the boot prompt, the following happens automatically. Unknown keyword in config file. Could not find kernel image: 1 boot: Any label input here

Howdy, I use isolinux very successfully to boot a CD on which I have a kernel with an initramfs compiled in that holds the bootsplash as well as an external initrd with a boot script. the CD boots fine and everything works the way it should. My problem is actually when I try to boot the same kernel and initrd from the HD of a machine (easy way to boot the CD without altering the BIOS). For

Hi All, I've got a simple isolinux cd loading a floppy image via memdisk, that boots reliably on 14 of 15 platforms, but intermittently hangs on one and, unfortunately, I can't substitute the platform. The behavior is weird. If I cold boot the system with the CD already in the drive, it *usually* boots to completion. Warm boots are hit-or-miss. If there's any drive door action

Peter, Thank you for isolinux. What a relief to be rid of floppy images! ISOLINUX works great except in one puzzling instance. I recently upgraded my system with a Promise Ultra 133 (PDC20269) controller. In order to boot from either the hard drive or CDROM drive connected to this controller I set the boot device in the motherboard BIOS to SCSI. Everything seemingly works great. Until we get

H. Peter, I came across the first system where isolinux failed to load: ======================================================= Isolinux 1.63 2001-8-6 Copyright ... isolinux: Starting up, DL = F0 isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = F0 isolinux: Sector size appears to be 0800 isolinux: Loading main image from LBA, 0003F25D isolinux: Sectors to load = 0004

I am trying to install Debian Linux on an an old Intel Classic R+ computer that uses an internal Yamaha SCSI CD writer model CRW8424S connected to an Adaptec ISA SCSI card (I think its a 1542CP). The CD writer is is the only device connected to the SCSI card. The computer has one hard drive connected to the on-board IDE interface, a 1.44MB 3 1/2 inch floppy and a 1.2MB 5 1/4 inch floppy. The hard

Hi all, I am using sys/isolinux for a mini-distro I am developing (movix.sf.net) and I have a few questions based on the feedback I got from users. As it is well known, there are some BIOS on which isolinux does not work, so I had to create a boot floppy image for those unfortunate users that have that kind of BIOS. The floppy boots, looks for the CD and, if succesful, mounts the CD initrd.gz

Howdy, In the `Can I boot other operating systems with ISOLINUX?' section of syslinux.zytor.com/iso.php, there are some unclosed `code' tags. The following patch pinpoints the problems. Matt --- iso.php.orig Wed Apr 10 13:22:11 2002 +++ iso.php Wed Apr 10 13:22:04 2002 @@ -112,10 +112,10 @@ need to prepare a disk image (usually a floppy image, but a hard disk image can be used on

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

Hello all, I plan to make an (emergency) multi OS bootable CD which contain: - Win98 boot floppy (create from Win 98 control panel, add remove program) - WinME boot floppy (create from Win 98 control panel, add remove program) - Linux boot disk - Win NT boot disk - Win 2000 recovery console - Win XP recovery console - Winternal Administrative Pak (ERD Commander etc) I am new to Linux and feel

hi, i've been trying around for a month or so to get isolinux on my toshiba satellite 4010cdt running. It doesn't really work. The debug version says the following: ISOLINUX 1.75 2002-06-14 ... isolinux: Startinug up, DL = 82 isolinux: Loaded spec packed OK, drive = 82 and that's it. No boot there. If I chain-load (or however that's called) my Isolinux - CDs with "Smart

I'm trying to display a picture on a bootable CD that I'm working on. I tried isolinux-debug.bin, and the printouts we not very helpful. I see 'isolinux: Configuration file opened...', and then it displays the text from my display file (but not the image). Here's the strange thing, syslinux displays the image just fine. I take the appropriate files from the CD, copy

> On 03/18/2017 04:15 PM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > > > >> On 03/18/2017 01:18 AM, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > >>> _ With the USB device connected to (one of) the problematic > >>> computer(s), power up the system and get into the BIOS setup. In > >>> the BIOS setup screen(s), change the boot order in such way that > >>> the

Hello, I have downloaded and burned Suse 9.2 Live CD. The problem is, it won't boot. I get "searching for boot record on CDROM... not found" message and then system just boots from hard drive. Other bootable cdroms work, it's just suse that doesn't. I post this here because suse live cd uses isolinux (isolinux.cfg below). Is there a way to make the cd boot, maybe using

Hi, Ady wrote: > In the last few years, ISOLINUX has received very low attention, both > upstream and downstream. Nevertheless the well established Linux distros use it for their ISOs. Most have adopted mjg's isohybrid --uefi layout. Only SuSE does it different. So for me with my xorriso hat on, ISOLINUX is as an important partner as is GRUB. > So I' am about to (attempt to)

Since I've gotten convinced the really serious PXELINUX/ISOLINUX bug in 1.71 got squashed, I have released 1.72. Again, 1.72 is a bug fix release only. I have some additional rewrites pending before I want to introduce features that use the new core code, but let's make sure it gets usable again, first... -hpa SYSLINUX 1.70 doesn't introduce any new features, but contains a

Hello, I try do build a bootable CD-ROM with ISOLINUX, but i fail with initrd Here is what i have done : The root is /home/CDInstall I have creat /home/CDInstall/isolinux In /home/CDInstall/isolinx i have put : boot.msg initrd.img isolinux.bin isolinux.cfg vmlinuz isolinux.cfg is there : default linux prompt 1 display boot.msg timeout 100 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img

hey guys, im attempting to build my own linux distro. My first step is too get a linux kernel and ramdisk image on a bootable cd via isolinux. my problem seems to NOT be with pxelinux/isolinux, but with the kernel. Im not postive so here whats happening. the machine boots, and loads isolinux from the cd and presents a "boot:" prompt to me. after i type in the kernel label it seems