[syslinux] pxelinux fails to load miniroot completly

[detlef oertel]

H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
> detlef oertel wrote:
>> Hello hpa,
>>
>> because git-bisec is unknown to me I tried the Versions from
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Old/
>>
>> the results are:
>>
>> 2.04 runs
>> 2.06 runs
>> 2.08 runs
>> 2.09 Error: failed to initialize udp-stack
>> 2.13 Error: failed to initialize udp-stack
>> 3.00 crash after start loading miniroot.gz (like 3.11 or 3.61)
>>
>> Anything else I can do ?
>>
> 
> Sure, if you could try to narrow it down to a specific prerelease; see 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/Obsolete/
> 
> It looks like you have two failures above; I'm interested in the latter 
> (the one that doesn't go away, and that you said happens on isolinux as 
> well.)
So I supose the 'Error: failed to initialize udp-stack' isn't
our target problem and won't appear with isolinux.  
So we have to test with CD's.
This will take a little time...

I will come back with results later.

regards
detlef oertel
> 
> The smaller a range we can bracket it down to, the more likely it is to 
> be solvable.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 
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