[syslinux] memdisk image problems on shuttle hardware

Andrew Stuart andrew at shopcusa.com
Wed Jul 2 20:07:18 PDT 2008


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Andrew Stuart wrote:
>> Any chance you would have access to a shuttle you can test against? 
>> otherwise I will investigate setting up a serial console to the box and 
>> getting you remote access.
>>
> 
> I do have several Shuttle boxen, but I haven't seen this on any of these 
> machines.

Figures :P I have 8 here that won't. 3/4 different models.

Have you tried the hitachi image against them before?

>> I have tested against 3.70 and still have the same problem. By chance is 
>> there a way to set a pause or some such, as some of the output of 
>> memdisk scrolls off the screen too fast for me to read.
> 
> If you put "pause" on the command line, it will stop before booting.
> 
> 	-hpa

Makes sense, I will have to edit the wiki later to add that as a 
possible command.  Is that just for memdisk? Also is there a scroll back 
buffer of any kind at that point?

-A




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