[syslinux] Need help trying out new mboot.c32

[H. Peter Anvin]

Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 20090429 om 21:04 schreef Sebastian Herbszt:
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Okay, I think I've figured it out (and this explains the TBOOT problem
>>> too): Grub's definition of "the command line" includes the kernel/module
>>> filenames.  This isn't explicit in the spec, but it looks like tboot,
>>> and newer versions of Xen, skip to the first whitespace before parsing
>>> the command line.
>>>
>>> I have pushed out 3.80-pre3 with this fix.
>> Looks good now. Thanks.
>>
>> (XEN) Command line: palim palom noreboot acpi=off apic=debug console=vga,com1 com1=115200
> 
> What was it in 'syslinux.cfg'?
> Perticular, where were the triple dashes, ---, placed?
> 

Hi Geert... we figured it out offlist, it's all good now.

The problem was that the new mboot didn't include the kernel filename in
its notion of the "command line", which Grub does and therefore
Multiboot kernels expect.

	-hpa

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