[syslinux] Help Memdisk + Pxelinux hangs

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Jul 22 20:50:06 PDT 2007


Eileen.Mcnaughton at alcatel-lucent.co.nz wrote:
> Many thanks to Peter and Ian for their help!
> 
> I put the older version of Memdisk that Ian sent me in place of the file 
> on the server and it started to actually load the images. Some of my 
> images didn't work and some did - the one I settled on in the end was a 
> (2.8MB) copy of the universal bootdisk from http://www.netbootdisk.com/ 
> which is a bit slower to load than some but supports lots of network 
> cards.
> 
> I actually had tried re-downloading and recompiling the latest version of 
> Memdisk so I don't know if there is something about the version or it's to 
> do with what I (and the guy before me who actually knows about Unix) did.
> 

This is a regression, though, which makes me concerned.

Could you try syslinux 3.52-pre4 and see if it works?  Also, what is the
older version that you say works?

	-hpa




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