[syslinux] boot Soekris 4801 with EXTLINUX
Evan Webb
evan at lockdownnetworks.com
Wed May 25 09:57:27 PDT 2005
I suspect that the net4801 has the same problem as the net45xx that I
reported on Monday. I tested some more of the code, and it appears that,
strangely, the jump to the code in the 2nd sector (jz all_read) of
ldlinux.sys fails.
Peter, any ideas?
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:49 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Johan Linner wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I am trying to use EXTLINUX 3.08 to boot a Soekris net4801 from a
> > CompaqFlash card.
> > BIOS reports the CF card as the first master harddisk.
> > During boot/load the loader hangs after this output:
> > EXTLINUX 3.08 2005-05-19
> > PXELINUX and LILO works fine on the same setup
> > It this a general problem with Soekris/net4801 and EXTLINUX?
> >
>
> It's not just that; this problem has been encountered on other machines
> too, with 3.08. Could you try 3.07 and see if it works on your machine
> (at least one report said it worked with 3.07)? If it *does* work,
> could you perhaps see which prepatch broke it?
>
> -hpa
>
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Evan Webb <evan at lockdownnetworks.com>
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