[syslinux] Here we go - SYSLINUX 2.00 released
Jim Wright
jwright at penguincomputing.com
Wed Nov 6 17:39:58 PST 2002
I tried the test version (sorry for the delay) and it too locks up
the system. I haven't had this problem with any other version of
pxelinux.0 that I've tried.
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jim Wright wrote:
> > 2.00-pre14 worked with the "local" rule defined as
> >
> > LABEL local
> > LOCALBOOT 0
> >
> > 2.00 hangs for at least one of my systems. The system that fails is a
> > Supermicro 370DER with dual onboard Intel Ethernet Pro 100. It displays
> > the message "Booting from local disk..." and then hangs. No "PXE-M0F:
> > exiting" message. The keyboard LEDs are responsive, and I can reboot
> > with ctrl-alt-del.
> >
>
> Hmmm... I looked through the code I thought might be a problem and
> didn't find anything. It's pretty clear where this error is happening,
> but I can't understand *how* it's happening. I will send you a test
> version under separate cover... it may or may not do any good :-/
>
> > Another system which works fine with both 2.00-pre14 and with 2.00 has
> > an old single PIII Supermicro board with a 440BX chipset and an old
> > Intel Ethernet Pro 100 pci network card.
>
> Was this broken at some other time?
>
> -hpa
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