[syslinux] pxelinux fails to load miniroot completly

[detlef oertel]

H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
> detlef oertel wrote:
>> We tried different versions of pxelinux (3.11, 3.61, 3.62-pre12) with no success.
>> Then we tried version 2.04 from 2003 and all works fine.
>> We think it is no good idea to use this old version in a 400 Client environment.
>>
>> Attached is hardware inventary file of this optiplex 740.
>>
>> Any idea what going wrong here ?
>>
> 
> No idea.
> 
> Since you have a working version, albeit ancient, it would be useful if 
> you could find out the exact version *including prereleases* which is 
> the last one working.
> 
> Even better, if you're comfortable with "git bisect", pull the git tree 
> and try to bisect:
> 
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git
> cd syslinux
> git bisect start
> git bisect good
> git bisect syslinux-2.04
> 
> Then:
> make spotless && make
> make bisect {good|bad}
> 
> ... repeat until done ...
> 
> Unfortunately, it's easy to land at an "unbisectable" spot :(
> 
> If so, it helps to narrow down the "good/bad" range by trying releases 
> and prereleases as I mentioned above.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 
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Hello hpa,

ok, we doing some more tests....

regards

detlef oertel

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