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

Ferenc Wagner wferi at niif.hu
Sat Mar 21 06:45:40 PDT 2009


John Rouillard <rouilj at renesys.com> writes:

> 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 [...]
>> 
>> 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?

Yes.

> If so I had what appears to be the same issue when using a serial
> console.  However I thought it was the term emulator.  [...]  I
> never saw a reboot or any other message, it was just hung.

Test current git or 3.74-pre9, this issue is fixed there.
-- 
Feri.




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