[syslinux] Problems booting Samsung NC20 netbook with pxelinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dirk Thierbach wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:33:58AM -0400, Gene Cumm wrote:
>> It could be that the NC20 doesn't like VESA (or how vesamenu.c32 uses
>> it).  
> 
> That seemed to be the problem. Disabling vesamenu.c32, adding vga=ask to
> the kernel parameters and selecting a graphical mode allowed me to boot
> the Debian installer image. With vga=normal, or without vga, the kernel
> starts to boot, but runs quickly into the same problem.
> 
> Any other information you need that would be helpful for the developers
> to find out why VESA on Samsung doesn't work as it should?
> 
> (BTW, in the meantime I've already updated to the current version of 
> pxelinux.)
> 

There is a program called "vesainfo.c32" included with Syslinux, which
outputs diagnostic information about your VESA stack.  Getting that
output would be extremely helpful -- just run it from the pxelinux
command line.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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