[syslinux] Booting with Syslinux 6.01 & 6.02 fails, causes restart.

Evert Vorster evorster at gmail.com
Sat Nov 23 06:04:04 PST 2013


> I'm just a user of the syslinux, but did run into some issues when moving
> from 4.x to 5.x and now testing 6.x. The main issue I found was that some
> additional .c32 files needed to be copied to make it work. Also, making sure
> that all files were from the same version, since mixing different version of the
> c32 files resulted in some strange results.
Thanks for the pointer! I'm now investigating the pedigree of each of
the files in /boot

> cp -p ./core/isolinux.bin
> cp -p ./com32/cmenu/display.c32
> cp -p ./com32/modules/cat.c32
> cp -p ./com32/modules/reboot.c32
> cp -p ./com32/menu/menu.c32
> cp -p ./com32/menu/vesamenu.c32
> cp -p ./com32/hdt/hdt.c32
> cp -p ./linux/syslinux
> cp -p ./dos/syslinux.com
> cp -p ./win32/syslinux.exe
>
> cp -p ./com32/lib/libcom32.c32
> cp -p ./com32/cmenu/libmenu/libmenu.c32
> cp -p ./com32/libutil/libutil.c32
> cp -p ./com32/elflink/ldlinux/ldlinux.c32
> cp -p ./com32/gpllib/libgpl.c32
> cp -p ./com32/modules/ls.c32
> cp -p ./com32/modules/linux.c32
> cp -p ./com32/modules/meminfo.c32
> cp -p ./com32/modules/poweroff.c32
Thanks for the list. I think my distro copies all the files by
default. Like I said, I'm still investigating.

Thank you for your help!


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