[syslinux] [PXELINUX] menu.c32/vesamenu.c32 and MS Virtual PC 2007 --> Hang/crash

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue May 20 17:01:29 PDT 2008


Bart van den Oetelaar wrote:
> Thanks, that is very useful information!!
> 
> However, recompiling the menu every time I change it is not really something I would like to do.
> 
> Is it possible to fix the hang/crash in menu.c32/vesamenu.c32 experienced during PXEboot of a MS Virtual PC 2007 machine?
> That would make the menu a really great tool for selecting a memdisk, distro or winPE to boot from.
> 
> Is it possible to debug it somehow? VirtualPC is available for download @ Microsoft at no cost, you only need a Windows pc to be able to run it, so pretty much everyone could test it with menu.c32/vesamenu.c32.
> Otherwise I could maybe do some debugging if I knew how to.
> 
> Getting this fixed would be very nice indeed.
> 

Usually the easiest way to debug is to enable debugging statements over 
the (virtual) serial port, and try to debug() all you can think of.  See 
com32/lib/sys/vesa/debug.h.

	-hpa




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