[syslinux] Odd syslinux problem booting 2.6.7 kernel
Matthew Schumacher
matt.s at aptalaska.net
Thu Jun 24 16:17:44 PDT 2004
I have a small embedded 486 system that is having a very strange problem
booting the linux kernel.
The system boots fine normally, but if I don't do a proper shutdown on
it (everything is in ramdisk anyway) then I can no longer boot the 2.6
kernel. It simply hangs after the "Ready.":
SYSLINUX 2.10 2004-06-18 Copyright (C) 1994-2004 H. Peter Anvin
boot:
Loading linux....................
Loading
rootfs.gz...................................................................................................
Ready.
To resolve the issue all I need to do is start from an 2.4 kernel and do
a proper shutdown (reboot) and all is well again.
Any idea why a kernel would refuse to start after an improper shutdown?
Sounds like something to do with flushing the hda device to me. The
FAT fs that it lives on is not mounted during the power off and I can
confirm though md5sum that the kernel image file is not changing.
Here is some information about my system:
Kernel that fails to boot after improper shutdown: 2.6.7
Kernel that will boot after improper shutdown: 2.4.25
Disk: SanDisk SDCFB-16, CFA DISK drive (16MB CF disk)
Motherboard: Whistle Interjet
Additional notes:
slow and safe (-s) doesn't resolve this
While it is possible that this isn't a syslinux problem I figured I
would start here first since the kernel image is not changing.
Thanks,
schu
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