[syslinux] extlinux: missing text on serial output

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> There's no file named linux on the floppy image, so both syslinux and
> extlinux complain: "Could not find kernel image: linux".  However,
> syslinux does this instantly, while extlinux "waits" for a couple of
> seconds (running under QEMU) before printing this message.  If I
> enable DEBUG_TRACERS (a wonderful debugging aid, thanks for putting it
> into place!) extlinux floods my terminal with 288 kB of 'H's before
> outputting the message.  Those seem to come from cache.inc.  I doubt
> this would be normal.  What do you think?

Hm... I haven't seen this behaviour with extlinux myself.

'H' here means HIT, meaning that it's trying to read a sector that is 
already in the cache.

	-hpa