On Jul 2, 2015 2:00 AM, "patrick295767 patrick295767 via Syslinux"
<syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:>
> Hello,
>
> First, could you make a tar.gz instead of a tar.xz (at least on debian)?
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ shows .tar.gz
archives. You'll need to talk to Debian about the Debian archive.
> I compiled the syslinux-4.05+dfsg
> I would like to ask you if I shall copy the menu.elf + menu.c32 to the
> concerned directory?
Only the .c32 file.
> The menu.elf is needed or it shall be renamed as menu.c32 ?
It's not needed.
> Shall ldlinux.sys be too coming from same file?
Don't install this yourself. Use any of the SYSLINUX installers.
Please read doc/syslinux.txt.
> my simple example of menu:
>
> default menu.c32
This would be preferable:
DEFAULT superLinuxOS
UI menu.c32
> prompt 0
>
> MENU TITLE Sample Menu
> MENU AUTOBOOT Starting SuperOS in # seconds
> timeout 300
> TOTALTIMEOUT 9000
>
> label superLinuxOS
> MENU DEFAULT
> MENU LABEL SuperOS 5.3
> kernel live/vmlinuz
> append initrd=live/initrd.gz root=/dev/sda2
>
> label disk0
> localboot 0
> MENU LABEL Boot disk (0x80)
I general pick one case for the directives for my own reading but the
parser won't care.
--Gene