Dsl on Acer Aspire One

Camipol89 · 07-30-2009, 07:15 AM

Hello everybody
I need some help with installing Dsl on my Acer Aspire One.
I downloaded all the necessary and then I did the boot from the usb pen drive.
Then it shows up a message like that:
"Could not find kernel image: linux
boot: "
I checked that the file syslinux.cfg exists on the usb pen drive so that is not the problem.
So am I supposed to check that the paths to my kernel and initrd are correct?
Could someone tell me how do I do that cause I have no idea

Thank you

linus72 · 07-30-2009, 07:24 AM

Welcome to LQ Camipol89!

Mmmmmm.....

It does sound like there's no syslinux.cfg

Or as you said, paths are bad...

Older versions, those in dsl(4.4.10?)
you must give absolute path to kernel initrd

I don't have a dsl syslinux.cfg near me

Can you copy/paste the syslinux.cfg here?

Camipol89 · 07-31-2009, 10:18 AM

Yes it was 4.4.10 version
The syslinux.cfg file is here:

DEFAULT linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic qemu quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
TIMEOUT 300

PROMPT 1
DISPLAY boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
LABEL dsl
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic qemu quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL knoppix-txt
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=normal initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic qemu quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL expert
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic BOOT_IMAGE=expert frugal
LABEL fb1280x1024
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=794 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic qemu quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL fb1024x768
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic qemu quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL fb800x600
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=788 xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic qemu quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL failsafe
KERNEL linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=normal atapicd nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=minirt24.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal
LABEL userdef
KERNEL linux24
APPEND #################################################################################################### #################################################################################################### #################################################################################################### #################################################################################################### #################################################################################################### ###########

linus72 · 07-31-2009, 12:14 PM

Maybe your using old syslinux?

Give full path to kernel/initrd
as so, assuming kernel/initrd are in /

Code:

LABEL dsl
KERNEL /linux24
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=/minirt24.gz nomce noapic qemu quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal

if kernel/initrd are in "syslinux" folder

Code:

KERNEL /syslinux/linux24
initrd=/syslinux/minirt24.gz

try that

Camipol89 · 08-01-2009, 01:16 AM

It doesn't work

Don't you know if there is any newer file around where you can download dsl from??