[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.08-pre5

Jim Cromie jcromie at divsol.com
Sat Feb 5 02:53:31 PST 2005


H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> I have released SYSLINUX 3.08-pre5.  Sparse files should now work 
> correctly in extlinux.  Symlink support still needs to be added, though.
>
>     -hpa


had a chance to try this out on my soekris net4801, for which I 
requested the
'CONSOLE 0' feature, as implemented earlier in 3.0X series.

Im seeing a *subtle* effect from using the option, but other things are 
going wrong for me
that might mask its larger effect.

1st, my testfile:

[root at harpo pxelinux.cfg]# more default
SERIAL  0 19200
CONSOLE 0

F9       pxelinux.cfg/help.txt

IMPLICIT 0
APPEND   console=ttyS0,19200n81 root=/dev/hda1
DEFAULT menu.c32

LABEL    kad1
LABEL    truck
KERNEL   vmlinuz-2.6.10-kad1
APPEND   console=ttyS0,19200n81 root=/dev/nfs 
nfsroot=192.168.42.1:/nfshost/soekris 
nfsaddrs=192.168.42.100:192.168.42.1:192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:soekris:eth0 
panic=5 initrd=initrd-2.6.10-kad1.img


HERES WHAT I GET (attached too)

comBIOS ver. 1.26  20040721  Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Soekris Engineering.

net4801

0128 Mbyte Memory                        CPU Geode 266 Mhz


Slot   Vend Dev  ClassRev Cmd  Stat CL LT HT  Base1    Base2   Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:00:0 1078 0001 06000000 0107 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:06:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0000000 10
0:07:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0001000 10
0:08:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E301 A0002000 10
0:10:0 1799 6001 02000020 0117 0290 08 3F 00 0000E401 A0003000 11
0:18:2 100B 0502 01018001 0005 0280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:19:0 0E11 A0F8 0C031008 0117 0280 08 38 00 A0004000 00000000 05

 3 Seconds to automatic boot.   Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.

NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation
All rights reserved.

Pre-boot eXecution Environment  PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000  Intel Corporation


CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 C2 46 C8
CLIENT IP: 192.168.42.100  MASK: 255.255.255.0  DHCP IP: 192.168.42.1
efaultnux.cfg/d
PXELINUX 3.08 3.08-pre5  Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
Could not find kernel image: menu.c32
boot:


WRT the line between CLIENT IP and PXELINUX 3.08, (the Eth-addy)
During boot this screen-position scrolled repeatedly with text in a 15 
char window,  (wo newlines)
I saw copyright, HPA, 'UNDI', my IP, 'Trying to load' amongst other things.


Also,
# comments are currently an error:
Unknown keyword in config file.


FYI, heres bios notes on Soekris net4801, ver 1.26, which I recently flashed
to try to cure the escape-sequences to the screen.   my 3.0x testing
happened after flash, so I dont know which of 2 changes is more responsible
for the improvements.


comBIOS vers 1.26a

  * Update for net45xx to fix CF issue introduced in 1.26

comBIOS vers 1.26

  * improved support for PCI option ROM's
  * updated PXE boot code
  * improved int10/int16 serial console emulater




If I have default CONSOLE 1,
I get double chars on some output.

CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 C2 46 C8
CLIENT IP: 192.168.42.100  MASK: 255.255.255.0  DHCP IP: 192.168.42.1
6-c8-00-24-c2-4
PXELINUX 3.08 3.08-pre5  Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
gg  ffiillee..ii
gg  ffiillee..ii
..iigg  ffiillee
..iigg  ffiillee
..iigg  ffiillee
uu..cc3322mmeenn
bboooott::
uu..cc3322mmeenn
bboooott::
uu..cc3322mmeenn





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