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[Proposal] Update debian installion guide. Part 4.3.3.2.

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Anyone here maintains the installation guide?

refering to this link
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch04s03.html.en

I found that these instructions in does not work for me:

> 4.3.3.2. Adding the installer image
>
>
> Next you should create a syslinux.cfg configuration file, which at a bare
> minimum should contain the following two lines :
>
>> default vmlinuz
>> append initrd=initrd.gz
>>
>> I might be wrong, but i found that the official syslinux site warns us
about using APPEND directive in syslinux 5.00 and above

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Directives/append

Take the following simple configuration:
>
>   DEFAULT mykernel
>   APPEND root=/dev/sda2
>
> Note that the APPEND line here is a *global* directive, as it is not part
> of any LABEL entry.
>
> For Syslinux 4.xx and older, the above simple configuration works as (it
> used to be) expected.
>
> Since version 5.00, the result for the above sample configuration is that
> the *root=/dev/sda2* argument is not parsed, which will lead to
> unexpected results, most probably with some kind of failure to boot the OS.
> In other words, the *global* APPEND is ignored by the DEFAULT directive.
>
> For the above example, the configuration could be re-written as:
>
>   DEFAULT mykernel root=/dev/sda2
>
> or even better as:
>
>   DEFAULT mylabel
>   LABEL mylabel
>   KERNEL mykernel
>   APPEND root=/dev/sda2
>
>

Debian jessie uses syslinux 6.03, creating a bootable usb installer using
jessie's machine gives me something like  '*kernel panic*: *VFS*: unable to
*mount*'
I struggled for hours to solve this (since i'm a newbie, and i have very
little knowledge about creating bootable usb in linux).


@maintainers, you might want make some changes in your 'installation guide',

@all, if there is no maintainers here, how can i reach them?

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