[syslinux] boot Soekris 4801 with EXTLINUX

Evan Webb evan at lockdownnetworks.com
Wed May 25 15:38:14 PDT 2005


EXTLINUX seems to crash trying to return from initcache, I'm wondering
if it's allocating too much cache. I'm going to try adjust the settings
a little and see if there is any change.

Evan

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:26 -0700, Evan Webb wrote:
> You are correct. I added a jmp .noedd as the first command of eddcheck
> and syslinux now works. EXTLINUX now shows the copyright, but then stop,
> no prompt or anything. I'm adding a bit of debug code now to try and
> figure out where it might have gotten hung up. Is there EDD dependent
> read code thats used to read the ext2 sectors?
> 
> Evan
> 
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 13:11 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Evan Webb wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > That would mean that the second sector didn't get read correctly, which 
> > implies a fundamental bug in the BIOS.  One thing I would suggest is to 
> > hard-wire the CBIOS/EBIOS selection, and see if one works and not the other.
> > 
> > 	-hpa
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Evan Webb <evan at lockdownnetworks.com>
Lockdown Networks




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