[syslinux] Need help trying out new mboot.c32

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Apr 28 11:40:02 PDT 2009


Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> That is really strange!  Any chance I could bother you to put together a
>> disk image (iso or hd image) that shows the problem?  It doesn't have to
>> actually be able to mount root, as long as I know what it *should* look
>> like.
> 
> I used a slightly different command line:
> 
> label xen-com1
>  kernel mboot.c32
>  append xen-dbg-3.3.1_18494_03-1.8.gz noreboot acpi=off apic=debug
> console=vga,com1 com1=115200 ---  vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-31-xen.gz
> 
> and mboot is displaying
> Main cmdline: "noreboot acpi=off apic=debug console=vga,com1 com1=115200"
> but xen prints
> (XEN) Command line: acpi=off apic=debug console=vga,com1 com1=115200
> 
> So looks like the "noreboot" keyword being the first one is indeed
> "swallowed".
> Does this help or should i try to create an image (using pxelinux
> currently so don't have one yet)?
> 

Interesting... I can't reproduce it here.  The version of Xen that I
have acts in the expected way ... I see the whole command line.
So if you could produce an image that would be most helpful.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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