Syslinux - Sep 2005 - colon in syslinux.cfg leads to "Unknown keyword"

hi,

sorry for bothering the list but since I didn't find anything in the
documentation or archives I would be grateful for your help.

For a customized USB installer (based on redhat anaconda) I wanted to pass
an kernel parameter which contains a colon.
This leads twice to the error message
"Unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg."

Quoting the append string using ' or " wasn't successful.

The used syslinux version is 3.11 for windows. 

I only have access to an old redhat machine where I got the same error using
syslinux 1.52 (yeah, quite old)

Any ideas on how to quote the append string or workarounds?

kind regards,
Bernhard Patsch


-------- syslinux.cfg working -------- 
default usbinst
prompt 1
timeout 0
display boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 general.msg
F3 param.msg
F4 rescue.msg
F7 dogcat.msg
label phion
  kernel bzImage
  append ks=floppy initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16384
vmal
loc=128M
label usbinst
  kernel bzImage
  append initrd=initrd.img lang= text devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16384
vmalloc=1
28M ks=hdsda1/ks.cfg
-------- end syslinux.cfg --------

-------- syslinux.cfg faulty  -------- 
default usbinst
prompt 1
timeout 0
display boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 general.msg
F3 param.msg
F4 rescue.msg
F7 dogcat.msg
label phion
  kernel bzImage
  append ks=floppy initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16384
vmal
loc=128M
label usbinst
  kernel bzImage
  append initrd=initrd.img lang= text devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16384
vmalloc=1
28M ks=hd:sda1/ks.cfg

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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:03:15AM -0500, Nazo wrote:
> On 9/10/05, Bernhard Patsch <bpatsch at gmx.net> wrote:
> > -------- syslinux.cfg faulty  --------
[...]
> > label usbinst
> >   kernel bzImage
> >   append initrd=initrd.img lang= text devfs=nomount
> >   ramdisk_size=16384
> > vmalloc=1
> > 28M ks=hd:sda1/ks.cfg 
> >
>
> Perhaps it's just the e-mail, but, it looks to me like the part of the
> append line with the colon has gotten onto a new line by itself
> instead of being word-wrapped, starting with the 28M part.  Have you
> made certain it is all actually one line?
There's just a line break in the email - the actual syslinux.cfg
contains the whole append string in one line.
Due to lazyness when testing the append lines I've also tried a short
append line (append ks=hd:sda1/ks.cfg) getting the same error.

bye,
Benny

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:32:48 +0200 (MEST), Bernhard Patsch wrote:
>Quoting the append string using ' or " wasn't successful.
If you quote, IMO you should not quote the total append string but only
the content of the option, like this:
ks="hd:sda1/ks.cfg"

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HTH,
Regards.
Arwin.