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diff --git a/doc/syslinux.txt b/doc/syslinux.txt index dc82f2a1..54be427b 100644 --- a/doc/syslinux.txt +++ b/doc/syslinux.txt @@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ IPAPPEND flag_val [PXELINUX only] interface the system booted. LABEL label - KERNEL image - APPEND options... - IPAPPEND flag_val [PXELINUX only] + KERNEL image + APPEND options... + IPAPPEND flag_val [PXELINUX only] Indicates that if "label" is entered as the kernel to boot, SYSLINUX should instead boot "image", and the specified APPEND and IPAPPEND options should be used instead of the ones @@ -190,11 +190,8 @@ LABEL label "label", and if no APPEND is given the default is to use the global entry (if any). - Starting with version 2.20, LABEL statements are compressed - internally, therefore the maximum number of LABEL statements - depends on their complexity. Typical is around 600. SYSLINUX - will print an error message if the internal memory for labels - is overrun. + Starting with version 3.62, the number of LABEL statements is + virtually unlimited. Note that LILO uses the syntax: image = mykernel @@ -212,25 +209,27 @@ LABEL label Since version 3.32 label names are no longer mangled into DOS format (for SYSLINUX.) - LINUX image - Linux kernel image (default) - BOOT image - Bootstrap program (.bs, .bin) - BSS image - BSS image (.bss) - PXE image - PXE Network Bootstrap Program (.0) - FDIMAGE image - Floppy disk image (.img) - COMBOOT image - COMBOOT program (.com, .cbt) - COM32 image - COM32 program (.c32) - CONFIG image - New configuration file + The following commands are available after a LABEL statement: + + LINUX image - Linux kernel image (default) + BOOT image - Bootstrap program (.bs, .bin) + BSS image - BSS image (.bss) + PXE image - PXE Network Bootstrap Program (.0) + FDIMAGE image - Floppy disk image (.img) + COMBOOT image - COMBOOT program (.com, .cbt) + COM32 image - COM32 program (.c32) + CONFIG image - New configuration file Using one of these keywords instead of KERNEL forces the filetype, regardless of the filename. CONFIG means restart the boot loader using a different configuration file. - APPEND - + APPEND - Append nothing. APPEND with a single hyphen as argument in a LABEL section can be used to override a global APPEND. - LOCALBOOT type [ISOLINUX, PXELINUX] + LOCALBOOT type [ISOLINUX, PXELINUX] On PXELINUX, specifying "LOCALBOOT 0" instead of a "KERNEL" option means invoking this particular label will cause a local disk boot instead of booting a kernel. @@ -251,6 +250,12 @@ LABEL label mean that the next boot device in the boot sequence should be activated. + INITRD initrd_file + Starting with version 3.71, an initrd can be specified in a + separate statement (INITRD) instead of as part of the APPEND + statement; this functionally appends "initrd=initrd_file" to + the kernel command line. + IMPLICIT flag_val If flag_val is 0, do not load a kernel image unless it has been explicitly named in a LABEL statement. The default is 1. |