[syslinux] memdisk from 3.36 crashing on Dell PowerEdge 1955

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Mar 20 14:19:25 PDT 2007


Andreas Kotes wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> * Andreas Kotes <count-linux at flatline.de> [20070315 19:03]:
>> ... and then nothing ... I've no idea what to try now .. unless you've
>> got any suggestions, I'll drop a mail to Dell Support tomorrow ...
> 
> more findings:
> 
> memdisk 3.31 works
> memdisk 3.35 doesn't
> memdisk 3.50 (git) says 'Error reading PBR'
> 
> didn't dig deep enough into git to find out how to get to a specific
> revision (if there is something like a revision at all with git), so I
> didn't find out which patch broke it .. I'll be using memdisk from 3.31
> for now, and will be happy to try code if this helps you.
> 

There is; there is also a tool called "git bisect" to help find the image.

	-hpa




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