When booting with syslinux 3.07 I get this:
Missing parameter in syslinux.cfg
Missing parameter in syslinux.cfg
Missing parameter in syslinux.cfg
Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg
it still boots as expected, if the comments before the
DEFAULT keyword is removed, the boot is clean.
this behavior has changed since 2.11, which doesn't
give these messages with the same syslinux.cfg
syslinux.cfg:
#
# $Id: syslinux.cfg,v 1.3 2005/03/08 21:17:18 thomasez Exp $
#
# 0 is the first port, 1 is the second and so on.
# the last argument is the speed.
#
#serial 0 19200
default floppyfw
display floppyfw.msg
label floppyfw
kernel vmlinuz
# Append stuff, usually the only stuff you might need to edit.
# Under this append line you can find two other options that can be added
# to the append line.
append rw init=/linuxrc initrd=initrd.sq root=/dev/ram0 source=/dev/floppy/0