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Re: booting iso image having syslinux


From: Felix Zielcke
Subject: Re: booting iso image having syslinux
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:53:34 +0200

Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 17:18 +0530 schrieb J.Bakshi:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
> Serbinenko<address@hidden> wrote:
> >>> It's not an issue. Just bypass the syslinux and boot the kernel you
> >>> want with options you want and initrd you want using linux and initrd
> >>> commands
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>>
> >>
> >> I have done that and here is the menu entry
> >>
> >> ```````````````````
> >> menuentry "gparted"
> >> {
> >> loopback loop (hd0,2)/gparted-live-0.4.5-2.iso
> >> linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz1 union=aufs boot=live noswap noprompt
> >> vga=791 toram ip=frommedia nolocales isofrom=/gparted-live-0.4.5-2.iso
> >> initrd (loop)/live/initrd1.img
> >> }
> >> `````````````````````````
> >>
> >> and grub reports "invalid magic number "  Obviously the
> >> gparted-live-0.4.5-2.iso is located at the second partition of my usb
> >> stick and the file system is reiserfs.  The options with kernel is
> >> collected from the syslinux.cfg file
> >>
> > Are you sure your kernel /live/vmlinuz1 is correct? Check that iso was
> > copied correctly (chacksum)
> >>
> 
> Thanks for your kind guidance.
> The kernel path is correct. But after getting your response, I have
> downloaded the iso again and overwrite the existing one in usb-stick.
> Also check the md5sum and it is correct. And something *NEW* has
> happend this time. No more error like before ( invalid magic number )
> .  Though not sucees yet. Now grub display "Linux-bzimage" and just
> stick there. No further progress.

Try loading the kernel with the old linux loader with linux16 and
initrd16.


-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer





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