[syslinux] bug (I think) in gpxelinux.0 ?

Nico de Haer nico.dehaer at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 12:22:54 PDT 2009


Peter,

Done some more tests, it also seems that the keeppxe parameter is being
ignored by 3.74.

Results below are done using 3.72:

1) booting the disk using pxelinux.0: works
2) booting the disk using gpxelinux.0 fails

Output for test 2: (hope that this includes the pointer info you requested)

Disk is floppy 0, 1440 K, C/H/S = 80/2/18, EDD off
Using raw access to high memory
Total size needed = 2507 bytes, allocating 3K
Old dos memory at 0x8f000 (map says 0x8f000), loading at 0x8e400
1588: 0xffff 15E801: 0x3c00 0x0ed2
INT 13 08: Success, count 1, BPT = f000:81e9
old: int13 = f000ec59 int15 = 8f28061b int1e = f00081e9
new: int13 = 8e40000a int15 = 8e40037c int1e = f00081e9
Loading boot sector... booting...

small chunk from my config file:
kernel memdisk raw keeppxe
append initrd=bootdisk/xpboot-144.ima

Nico
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> Nico de Haer wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently I am building a new PXE boot environment and during that I
>> noticed
>> something odd while attempting to boot using one of those universal
>> netbootdisks based on the '3Com Universal NDIS driver v1.00' (aka undis3c)
>> driver.
>>
>> Using pxelinux.0 this works like a charm, but when I switch to gpxelinux.0
>> the 3Com driver bails out on me... all other configuration is the same.
>> Have
>> reproduced these results using syslinux 3.72 and also 3.74 (latest version
>> at the time of writing)
>>
>>
> Got a pointer to said disc and how it is booted?
>
> This class of problems isn't really unexpected, unfortunately.  The cleanup
> phase in gpxelinux.0 is still not quite there yet.
>
>        -hpa
>
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