syslinux.cfg

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Aniyan Rajan
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Hello,

I have a squashfs based distro in my usb stick. It is Trisquel-mini-slaine.
In the root folder of the usb stick, there is a syslinux.cfg. The contents
are below. It looks like it is for showing a grub like menu. But there is
no menu displayed while booting. Could you please help me to understand
what is wrong ?

Thanks,

PROMPT 0
> default Trisquel
>
> label Trisquel
> menu label Try Trisquel without installing
> kernel vmlinuz
> append cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/trisquel.seed
> initrd=/casper/initrd boot=casper splash quiet --
>

Aniyan Rajan
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Please give a response, anyone...

Thanks,

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Aniyan Rajan <name at domain>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a squashfs based distro in my usb stick. It is
> Trisquel-mini-slaine. In the root folder of the usb stick, there is a
> syslinux.cfg. The contents are below. It looks like it is for showing a
> grub like menu. But there is no menu displayed while booting. Could you
> please help me to understand what is wrong ?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> PROMPT 0
>> default Trisquel
>>
>> label Trisquel
>> menu label Try Trisquel without installing
>> kernel vmlinuz
>> append cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/trisquel.seed
>> initrd=/casper/initrd boot=casper splash quiet --
>>
>
>
>

GustavoCM

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Have it worked before?

Have you followed any specific installation guide? Which one?

Aniyan Rajan
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Hello,

Have it worked before?
>
The OS is booting. But the boot menu never appeared.

Have you followed any specific installation guide? Which one?
>
I have downloaded this one from the following url, sometime ago. But now
this url is not working too.
http://devel.trisquel.info/slaine/trisquel-mini-master/casper/

I just copied them to my usb stick, then did the following command and it
started booting. Is there any installation guide? Please show me if there
is one.

#syslinux /dev/sdb1

thanks,

lembas
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You might also want to notice that slaine end-of-lifed on March 24, 2012.

It's not a good idea to use unsupported software.

Aniyan Rajan
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>
> You might also want to notice that slaine end-of-lifed on March 24, 2012.
>
> It's not a good idea to use unsupported software.
>

That's okay for me. I just want to learn how that syslinux.cfg works. Is
there any installation guide? Will that help?

Thanks.

lembas
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Joined: 05/13/2010

In that case you'll probably find info here http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project

Aniyan Rajan
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My syslinux.cfg shows a 'menu' line. Will the syslinux display a grub like
menu while booting ?

PROMPT 0
> default Trisquel
>
> label Trisquel
> menu label Try Trisquel without installing
> kernel vmlinuz
> append cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/trisquel.seed
> initrd=/casper/initrd boot=casper splash quiet --
>