[syslinux] Hanging while booting

[H. Peter Anvin]

Tor Fredrik Aas wrote:
> Booting with SYSLINUX on a Digital Celebris GL 5166 ST machine causes the 
> loader to hang. The problem is solved by installing syslinux with the -s 
> option. 
> 
> This problem seems to affect the Celebris GL 5133 ST system as well. 
> According to some older digital support pages they have the same bios and 
> the motherboard seems to be almost identical.
> 
> The BIOS is a Phoenix BIOS v.4.04 with vendor version v.1.03. There is an 
> update to the vendor version, but I don't have the facilities to install 
> this since it requires an older version of DOS.
> 
> Other bootloaders : The netbsd bootloader seems to work fine, but there are 
> other issues with netbsd on this machone. The FREEDOS loader crashes on 
> loading with a divide by zero error. 
> 
> More information on the system and error messages available on request.
> 

Ah yes.  Phoenix v4.0x was a very buggy core.  The fact that FreeDOS 
crashes certainly doesn't look promising.

Since this appears to be a rather old machine and you have a workaround 
for it (-s) I will leave this as-is.

	-hpa