Answering my own question, here is the configuration selection (from
block devices using make menuconfig) that boots from lilo but not from
syslinux:
[*] Normal PC floppy disk support
[ ] Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
--- Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
[*] Old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver (NEW)
--- Additional Block Devices
And here is the one that boots both ways:
[*] Normal PC floppy disk support
[*] Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
--- Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
[ ] Use old disk-only driver on primary interface
[*] Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
(no intervening options selected)
--- Additional Block Devices
But why, he asks?
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:33, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> I'm having a problem booting my firewall box from a syslinux floppy. It
> boots the same kernel from the HD under lilo just fine. I know that this
> worked once upon a time using kernel 2.2.17, but it's not working now
> with kernel 2.2.19, and (he sheepishly adds) I seem to have misplaced
> the .config I used for 2.2.17 when it was working.
>
> Here is what happens when I attempt a floppy boot:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> ...
> hda: 256MB, CHS=522/16/63
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2
> VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> And here is how it goes when booting from the HD:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> ...
> hda: 256MB, CHS=522/16/63
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> (etc., everything is fine from here on)
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Anyone got any ideas (or a cluebat, even).
>
> Cheers,
> Pann
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