Syslinux - Mar 2003 - The computer hangs while booting the kernel

Hi List,

I have got the Problem that syslinux does not boot my kernel it loads it:

SYSLINUX 2.02 2003-02-13  Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin
boot:
Loading linux..............Ready.
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.

and then it just hangs.

Is this a problem with Syslinux or with my kernel?
My syslinux.cfg is:

default test1
prompt 1
timeout 10
label test1
 kernel linux
 append root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.168.1 ip=dhcp

Any hint will be greatly appreciated.

MfG Julian Picht

Julian Picht wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I have got the Problem that syslinux does not boot my kernel it loads it:
> 
> SYSLINUX 2.02 2003-02-13  Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin
> boot:
> Loading linux..............Ready.
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> 
> and then it just hangs.
> 
> Is this a problem with Syslinux or with my kernel?
> 
If you get the "OK, booting the kernel", then the kernel was loaded 
correctly by SYSLINUX.  If you're using a 2.5 kernel, make sure that (a) 
you compile in VT console and (b) pass "console=tty0" on the command 
line; this should be the default but that is currently broken in the 2.5 
series.

	-hpa

Hi,

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> schrieb am 16.03.03
20:11:23:
> Julian Picht wrote:
> > I have got the Problem that syslinux does not boot my kernel it loads
it:
> > 
> > SYSLINUX 2.02 2003-02-13  Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin
> > boot:
> > Loading linux..............Ready.
> > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> > 
> > and then it just hangs.
> > 
> > Is this a problem with Syslinux or with my kernel?
> If you get the "OK, booting the kernel", then the kernel was
loaded
> correctly by SYSLINUX.  
This is most definitively a kernel problem. I had this once and found out that I
transferred
the kernel image ascii instead of binary. Usually the decompression of the
kernel follows,
and this should never ever crash the machine.

Recompile the kernel, make sure you transferred the kernel correctly, or even
try to
write the kernel image directly to a floppy disk.

Regards,

Josef
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