[syslinux] Version 3.35 problems with Broadcom BCM5780 chipset

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:

> 
> I have some puzzling observations with the 3.20-3.35 versions of menu.c32:
> 1) On one server all these versions of the menus always work correctly.
> 2) On a second server with *identical* hardware and firmware versions the
>     SYSLINUX menus behave like this:
>     3.20: OK, OK, Fail
>     3.30: Fail
>     3.31: Fail
>     3.32-pre8: Fail
>     3.35-pre1: OK
>     3.35-pre4: OK
>     3.35-pre5: OK
>     3.35: Fail, Fail, OK
>     When the menus fail, the server locks up when a menu item is pressed.
>     If a menu item has a password, I can type in the password, and then
>     the server locks up.
> 
> It really bugs me that two 100% identical servers (from a Linux xompute
> cluster) consistently behave differently with the SYSLINUX menu system.
> There seems to be an element of randomness in the second server regarding
> whether the menus work or not.  I have no idea how this may come about.
> 

Me neither.  This is truly freaky.  It sounds like it's completely 
random, regardless of version.

Can you press <esc> to return to the command line?  If so, can you load 
the images that fail from there?

	-hpa