[syslinux] FW: pxelinux 5.x, 6.x memtest problem

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/28/2013 04:07 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> But, in Syslinux 4.06, there is linux.c32, which is a sort of
>>> introduction to Syslinux 5.xx (please allow me to be not strictly
>>> accurate in this sentence in this context).
>>>
>>> Booting with any variant of Syslinux 4.06, but using linux.c32,
>>> memtest would fail, which indicated some kind of problem related to
>>> the status of Syslinux 5.xx at the time v4.06 was released.
>>
>>
>> PXELINUX 4.06 with Memtest86-4.20 and Memtest86+-4.20 binaries
>> (renamed) using LINUX directly works.  Using linux.c32:
>> "syslinux_boot_linux() failed: Error 0"
>>
>> PXELINUX 5.10, 5.11-pre3, 6.01-pre5 with binaries LINUX directly:
>> "Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument"
> 
> Németh Péter :
> Would you happen to have a link for the Memtest86+ binaries that you
> attempted to use with PXELINUX?
> 

It is presumably the stock memtest-86+ 4.20 binaries.  As I wrote
elsewhere in the thread, the problem is understood.

	-hpa