Syslinux - Oct 2006 - Boot image from hard drive from syslinux initiated by a floppy disk boot

I have been trying to find the information by searching through the 
archives and google, so I am sorry if this question has been asked 
before I just have not been able to find an answer.
I have a syslinux boot floppy which loads to the boot prompt, I wish to 
load a .gz image which is on my hd0 0 by using memdisk as the kernel. I 
have tried to kernel memdisk append root=/dev/hd0  0 (also just using 
/hd0) initrd=mini.gz and   kernel memdisk initrd=/dev/hd0 0/mini.gz and 
a multitude of other things to try to accomplish this. But each time it 
responds "mini.gz cannot be found.
hd0 0 loads fine using chain.c32 from the floppy
If anybody could give me any advice I would be most grateful
Thank you

mailbox.t schreef:
> I have a syslinux boot floppy which loads to the boot prompt, I wish to 
> load a .gz image which is on my hd0 0 by using memdisk as the kernel. I 
> have tried to kernel memdisk append root=/dev/hd0  0 (also just using 
> /hd0) initrd=mini.gz and   kernel memdisk initrd=/dev/hd0 0/mini.gz and 
> a multitude of other things to try to accomplish this. But each time it 
> responds "mini.gz cannot be found.
> hd0 0 loads fine using chain.c32 from the floppy
>   
Syslinux flavours only seem to support a boot image coming from the same 
bootdevice.
Booting from a burned CD with a testing disk-image located on diskette 
for example could be worthwile,
saves you creating a new ISO (or even CD).

Something like:
kernel isolinux/memdisk
append initrd=(fd0)/fdboot.img

Bernd

mailbox.t wrote:
> I have been trying to find the information by searching through the 
> archives and google, so I am sorry if this question has been asked 
> before I just have not been able to find an answer.
> I have a syslinux boot floppy which loads to the boot prompt, I wish to 
> load a .gz image which is on my hd0 0 by using memdisk as the kernel. I 
> have tried to kernel memdisk append root=/dev/hd0  0 (also just using 
> /hd0)  initrd=mini.gz and   kernel memdisk initrd=/dev/hd0 0/mini.gz and
> a multitude of other things to try to accomplish this. But each time it 
> responds "mini.gz cannot be found.
> hd0 0 loads fine using chain.c32 from the floppy
> If anybody could give me any advice I would be most grateful
> Thank you
That is not supported.  memdisk doesn't load anything; it just relies on 
  syslinux to load whatever needs to be loaded.  syslinux always loads 
from the medium it was run from.

	-hpa

Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> mailbox.t schreef:
>> I have a syslinux boot floppy which loads to the boot prompt, I wish to
>> load a .gz image which is on my hd0 0 by using memdisk as the kernel. I
>> have tried to kernel memdisk append root=/dev/hd0  0 (also just using 
>> /hd0) initrd=mini.gz and   kernel memdisk initrd=/dev/hd0 0/mini.gz and
>> a multitude of other things to try to accomplish this. But each time it
>> responds "mini.gz cannot be found.
>> hd0 0 loads fine using chain.c32 from the floppy
>>   
> Syslinux flavours only seem to support a boot image coming from the same 
> bootdevice.
> Booting from a burned CD with a testing disk-image located on diskette 
> for example could be worthwile,
> saves you creating a new ISO (or even CD).
> 
> Something like:
> kernel isolinux/memdisk
> append initrd=(fd0)/fdboot.img
> 
This is for all practical purposes impossible to do within the framework 
of syslinux; it pretty much means turning syslinux into GRUB with all 
the problems that entails.

This is not going to happen.

	-hpa