[syslinux] menu.c32: CPU Fault on console 0

[John Rouillard]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 07:18:21PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:
> 
> > [...] In other words, everything works as expected.  But if I set
> > console 0
> > instead, loading menu.c32 kills off the processors [...]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I understand this is a rather strange report, but can't anybody give
> it a shot, whatever long?  I can successfully run dmitest.c32,
> pcitest.c32 and vesainfo.c32 (these are the ones I tried), but if I
> start menu.c32, the system freezes after clearing the screen and
> printing the top left corner. 

By top left corner do you mean the top left corner of the box with a
box character indented on the top row?

If so I had what appears to be the same issue when using a serial
console.  However I thought it was the term emulator.

> Actually, it reboots after a while
> leaving the terminal emulator in a confused state, printing strange
> characters instead of letters, just like after a cat /vmlinuz.

Hmm, ok you mention term emulator so I assume you are connected
serially.  I never say a reboot or any other message, it was just hung.
 
> I'd be grateful for a tip, how to investigate this further...

Ditto.

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John Rouillard
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