Bug#812200: installation-guide: Syslinux.cfg snippet in doc is misleading (4.1 Preparing Files for USB Memory)

[Ludovic Pouzenc <ludovic.pouzenc@univ-jfc.fr>]

Source: installation-guide
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,


In 4.3.3. Manually copying files to the USB stick — the flexible way,
there is a syslinux.cfg snippet :

default vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz

This particular one does not work for me : kernel panic when mount root.
Seen on jessie / amd64 current hd-images.

I *think* that this conf boots vmlinuz without appending the parameters.
A working minimal conf from syslinux doc, adapted for hd-media is :

DEFAULT linux
LABEL linux
  KERNEL vmlinuz
  APPEND initrd=initrd.gz

Cheers,
Ludovic

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)