[syslinux] CF boot stops after version and date output

[H. Peter Anvin]

John Hohm wrote:
> SYSLINUX 2.10 2004-06-18
> 
> That is all I get when I boot my system off a CompactFlash card in an
> IDE adapter, no matter how long I wait.  What debugging steps are
> recommended?  I'm willing to get down and dirty with assembler, and I'd
> appreciate suggestions of what to suspect and where to start.
> 
> Details:
> 
> This is a Crucial 128MB CompactFlash card in a non-hot-swap CF-IDE
> adapter which reports itself as a hard drive with 978/8/32 C/H/S.  The
> card is partitioned, and the first (and only) file system is FAT16.  The
> adapter is the primary (and only) device on the first IDE port.  The
> MBR, boot sector and LDLINUX.SYS are from SYSLINUX 2.10.
> 

Please try 2.09.  If that works, please try 2.10-pre4 and 2.10-pre5.  There 
seems to be some platforms for which that broke, and I'd really like to get a 
fix into the next 2.11-pre, but quite frankly I haven't figured out what broke 
yet.

	-hpa