[syslinux] Dell OptiPlex GX620 can longer boot from CD with syslinux-5.X

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Patrick Verner <distrozilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure what you need. Is this it?
>
> ISOLINUX 4.06 0x513e88f5
> isolinux: Starting up, DL = 82
> isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = 82
> isolinux: Main image LBA = 0000011D
> isolinux: Main image read, jumping to main code...
>
> I created an iso with isolinux-debug.bin as the boot loader and booted it
> on that machine. If this is not what you are looking for, what are correct
> steps?

Sorry I wasn't specific.  Could you try isolinux-debug.bin from
5.11-pre7 on the GX620?

> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Patrick Verner <distrozilla at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>Could you do screen captures of the output of meminfo.c32 when booting
>> > ISOLINUX-4.06 as a CD and SYSLINUX-4.06 as a USB?
>> >
>> > The results both match for booting 4.06 via CD and USB:
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> > SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 2012-10-23
>> > boot: meminfo.c32
>> > INT 15h = f000:f859  DOS RAM: 639K (0x9fc00)  INT 12h: 639K (0x9fc00)
>> > INT 15 88: 0xfc00 (64512K)  INT 15 E801: 0x3c00 (15360K) 0xbee8
>> (3127808K)
>> >        0 0000000000000000 00000000000a0000 00000000000a0000 1 [-] usable
>> >        1 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 0000000000100000 2 [-]
>> reserved
>> >        2 0000000000100000 00000000bfd86c00 00000000bfe86c00 1 [-] usable
>> >        3 00000000bfe86c00 0000000000002000 00000000bfe88c00 4 [-] ACPI
>> NVS
>> >        4 00000000bfe88c00 0000000000002000 00000000bfe8ac00 3 [-] ACPI
>> > reclaim
>> >        5 00000000bfe8ac00 0000000000175400 00000000c0000000 2 [-]
>> reserved
>> >        6 00000000e0000000 0000000004000000 00000000e4000000 2 [-]
>> reserved
>> >        7 00000000fed20000 0000000000080000 00000000feda0000 2 [-]
>> reserved
>> >        8 00000000fed00000 0000000000000400 00000000fed00400 2 [-]
>> reserved
>> >        9 00000000fec00000 0000000000100000 00000000fed00000 2 [-]
>> reserved
>> >        a 00000000fee00000 0000000000100000 00000000fef00000 2 [-]
>> reserved
>> >        b 00000000ffb00000 0000000000500000 0000000100000000 2 [-]
>> reserved
>>
>> I forgot that isolinux-debug.bin reordered the timing of when certain
>> messages are printed within the boot sector.  Could you post the
>> results of isolinux-debug.bin?
>>
>> --
>> -Gene
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