[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.10-pre15

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Aug 20 22:19:22 PDT 2005


Curtis Doty wrote:
> Curtis Doty wrote:
> 
>> I just picked up 3.10-pre15 and the "PXELINUX corrupts graphic 
>> filename referenced from DISPLAY file" bug is zapped. Yipee! Thanks 
>> hpa. And Arwin too, if that 'xor esi,esi' was the crux.
>>
>> However, LOCALBOOT -1 and LOCALBOOT 0 don't work the same as they did 
>> for me in 3.07. :-(
>>
>> 3.07:
>> LOCALBOOT -1 apears to work as I have a hard disk listed in bios boot 
>> order after the net card.
>> LOCALBOOT 0 also works fine by booting the disk as specified.
>>
>> 3.10-pre15:
>> LOCALBOOT -1 causes the system to reboot.
>> LOCALBOOT 0 hangs after "Booting from local disk..."
>>
>> Also FYI, in the 3.07 tests that *work*, the line immediately 
>> following "Booting from local disk..." is: "PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom 
>> PXE ROM." Then of course, "GRUB Loading stage2..." :-)
> 
> 
> 
> I just realized, all my tests above were indeed with a secondary menu.32 
> from 3.07. I just tested with 
> http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/menuhang-test/pxelinux.0 and *both* LOCALBOOT 
> -1 and 0 hang after "Booting from local disk..."
> 

Can you try changing:

%assign USE_PXE_PROVIDED_STACK 0	; Use stack provided by PXE?

... on line 55 of pxelinux.asm to a 1 and try rebuilding, to see if that 
makes any difference?

	-hpa




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