[syslinux] "Floating point exception" when running linux/syslinux using syslinux 3.72

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 21 03:20:10 PDT 2008


Steven Shiau wrote:
> Hi,
> I got "Floating point exception" when running linux/syslinux using
> syslinux 3.72.
> How to reproduce:
> 1. On debian Etch, kernel 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686
> 2. wget
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.72.tar.bz2
> 3. tar xvjf syslinux-3.72.tar.bz2
> 4. syslinux-3.72/linux/syslinux --help
> 5. An error message "Floating point exception" was shown.
> 
> Same problem for
> http://free.nchc.org.tw/syslinux/Testing/syslinux-3.73-pre6.tar.bz2.
> 
> It's OK when using syslinux 3.71.
> Does anyone has same problem ?
> 

Try doing:

	make clean
	make installer

... to recompile the installer for your particular distro.

	-hpa




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