[syslinux] ISOLINUX boot problem: request for help

[H. Peter Anvin]

Peter Bartke wrote:
> I made a BIOS update for the motherboard ASUS P5GD2 from version 1005 to
> latest 1007 (2/2006) and tried to reconstruct all the BIOS settings from
> memory as before.  
> 
> The problem remains. 
> 
> Is there a kernel debug mode? Could I compile kernel 2.6.21.5 (with
> Slax filesystem patches) to make a `vmlinuz' which tells us what it is
> doing? Or could you suggest files where we could insert `early_printk'
> messages at definite places?
> 

early_printk() doesn't exist yet at the point where your stuff is 
failing.  With the 2.6.23-rc1 kernel you can put printf() in the setup 
code in the kernel, but in earlier versions that mean hacking assembly.

	-hpa