[syslinux] [BUG] boot failure since syslinux-3.00

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jul 14 14:38:43 PDT 2008


Sean Young wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This AMD Elan board seems to be very problematic:
> 
> http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-5500
> 
> I'm having various issues with booting recent Linux kernels with syslinux.
> syslinux-2.13 was the last version that worked and since syslinux-3.00 
> it doesn't work.
> 
> When it doesn't work all I get is "Boot failed" from the bootsector. Since
> the obvious change since 3.* is the eddcheck and commenting that piece 
> out does make 3.* work (3.02 and 3.70).
> 
> It can be similated in bochs using the bios which is available here:
> 
> ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-x86-sbc/old-downloads/binaries/5500BIOS.ZIP
> 
> How should I proceed?
> 

I have no idea.  The BIOS you pointed me to unambiguously claims EDD is 
supported, it clearly also has code to use EDD, and yet it fails when 
one attempts to use it.

Have you attempted to contact the vendor about this problem?

	-hpa





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