[syslinux] pxelinux / memdisk / afud408 freeze.
Andrew Stuart
andrew at shopcusa.com
Fri Aug 24 22:10:17 PDT 2007
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Andrew Stuart wrote:
>
>> Has anyone had a problem with afud408 (Award flash program) freezing the
>> system when ran from memdisk?
>> The freeze occurs when just running afud408 (not attempting to update
>> bios, although it freezes then as well.)
>>
>> I was using pxelinux/memdisk 3.36, I upgrade to 3.51, and also fell back
>> to 2.11 all have the same issue.
>>
>> I have tried all the switches for memdisk that I saw posted on the
>> memdisk webpage (non wiki). raw/bigraw caused the image to freeze before
>> even booting. (frozen cursor before loading the boot sector?). The disk
>> image is a Windows 95 boot image that I used winimage to expand to
>> 2.88MB. I use this image for all my bios upgrade needs.
>>
>> This seems to occur on a large amount of MSI's latest offerings (w/
>> award bios) (Specifically: 945gm2, 945gm3 and g965m). I used this same
>> image on a Dell laptop for giggles, and it worked fine (it spit out the
>> usage menu).
>>
>> At this point I am sure it's a bios/pxe issue, but does anyone have any
>> suggestions before I try taking the issue up with MSI? Any idea how I
>> can troubleshoot this further, so that I can give them specifics as to
>> why it locked up?
>>
>> If it isn't clear, this on 10+ different systems, different hardware,
>> different configurations, all hardware has been tested to be good.
>>
>>
>
> Can you boot MEMDISK from media, as opposed to PXE? That way we can at
> least separate the PXE stack from the rest of the system...
>
> -hpa
>
Yeah, I had already planned on doing so. I was hoping to have done it
today but other projects took precedence. I hope to try this early next week
-A
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