[syslinux] memdisk from 3.36 crashing on Dell PowerEdge 1955

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andreas Kotes wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> [20070312 23:15]:
>>> uhm - that's not what I meant :) both 3.36 and 3.40-pre12 fail, so .. a
>>> memdisk with more debugging information would be appreciated :)
>> What you see is what you get, sorry; the fact that you don't even get a 
>> "Loading" indicates the failure is in syslinux and not in memdisk, and 
>> that it dies on some pretty fundamental level.
> 
> whoops? that is strange. linux kernels get loaded okay.
> 
> any recommendations at all, or am I simply out of luck?
> 

That is indeed extremely weird, because as far as syslinux is concerned, 
memdisk *IS* a Linux kernel.  I really have no good explanation for 
this!  One thing you could try is to specify a mem= option and tweak it 
a bit; that will make syslinux load the disk image in different places. 
  However, I find it hard to see *at all* how it could fail before 
showing something like:

Loading memdisk.....
Loading image.......................... Ready.

	-hpa