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

[Ferenc Wagner]

Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:

> 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 [...]
>
> 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.  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.
>
> I'd be grateful for a tip, how to investigate this further...

Just for the record: we talked about this on #syslinux, and Peter
found and squashed the bug.  Fixed in 3.74-pre9.
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Thanks,
Feri.