[syslinux] memdisk from 3.36 crashing on Dell PowerEdge 1955

[Andreas Kotes]

Hello,

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> [20070312 23:56]:
> Andreas Kotes wrote:
> >* 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.

btw, it's pxelinux, not syslinux - and it is requesting the memdisk from
the TFTP server okay .. I will try the mem= stuff some time the next
days.

Thanks for pointing in a useful direction for debugging ;)

   Andreas

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