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dokurnon

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From: United States

Registered: 2011-12-24

Posts: 13

No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found

Upon booting from a usb installer of the 1686 netinstall, syslinux presents the error

No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found.

SERIAL 0 38400
DEFAULT vesamenu.c32
PROMPT 0
MENU TITLE Arch Linux
MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
TIMEOUT 3000

MENU WIDTH 78
MENU MARGIN 4
MENU ROWS 6
MENU VSHIFT 10
MENU TIMEOUTROW 13
MENU TABMSGROW 11
MENU CMDLINEROW 11
MENU HELPMSGROW 16
MENU HELPMSGENDROW 29

# Refer to http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Doc/menu

MENU COLOR border       30;44   #40ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR title        1;36;44 #9033ccff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR sel          7;37;40 #e0ffffff #20ffffff all
MENU COLOR unsel        37;44   #50ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR help         37;40   #c0ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout_msg  37;40   #80ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout      1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR msg07        37;40   #90ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR tabmsg       31;40   #30ffffff #00000000 std

LABEL arch
TEXT HELP
Boot the Arch Linux live medium. It allows you to install Arch Linux or
perform system maintenance.
ENDTEXT
MENU LABEL Boot Arch Linux
LINUX /arch/boot/i686/vmlinuz
INITRD /arch/boot/i686/archiso.img
APPEND archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201108
# Next line should be uncommented when prepare enviroment to boot from PXE.
#IPAPPEND 3

LABEL existing
TEXT HELP
Boot an existing operating system. Press TAB to edit the disk and partition
number to boot.
ENDTEXT
MENU LABEL Boot existing OS
COM32 chain.c32
APPEND hd0 0

# http://www.memtest.org/
LABEL memtest
MENU LABEL Run Memtest86+ (RAM test)
LINUX /arch/boot/memtest

# http://hdt-project.org/
LABEL hdt
MENU LABEL Hardware Information (HDT)
COM32 hdt.c32
APPEND modules_alias=hdt/modalias.gz pciids=hdt/pciids.gz

LABEL reboot
MENU LABEL Reboot
COM32 reboot.c32

LABEL poweroff
MENU LABEL Power Off
COMBOOT poweroff.com

ONTIMEOUT arch

Thanks for any help.

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found

First of all, it's not 1686... it's i686.

What "USB installer" did you use? Because it sounds to me like the SYSLINUX bootloader either wasn't installed properly or was installed pointing to the wrong location - which is kinda odd, because by default, it looks for:

/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
/syslinux.cfg

If it was installed correctly it should've detected the "DEFAULT vesamenu.c32" entry. I'll ask again. What "usb installer" did you use?

And does it say something like this at the top?

SYSLINUX 3.86 2010-04-01 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994 - 1010 H. Peter Anvin et al

Because according to this, "make sure you have syslinux 4.04 installed (older or newer syslinux 4 versions may work, syslinux 3.XX will not work)."

Last edited by DSpider (2012-02-17 21:55:13)

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