[syslinux] fsc branch and Bochs

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Sep 2 16:59:08 PDT 2009


On 09/02/2009 03:07 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 09/02/2009 02:15 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>>> I have just tried syslinux-4.00-pre5-3-g25fb8eb on Bochs + etherboot
>>> and it doesn't seem to work:
>>>
>>> It seems to work fine on VMware Server. Any clues?
>>>
>>
>> I haven't run it on Bochs myself.  I know the Etherboot that is included
>> with Bochs is pretty buggy.  It's probably worthwhile to figure out what
>> it is having problems with and work around it.
> 
> I tested the following configurations:
> 
> syslinux-3.83-pre9-1-g788da30 + etherboot 5.4.2 = ok
> syslinux-3.83-pre9-1-g788da30 + gpxe 0.9.7+ = ok
> syslinux-4.00-pre5-3-g25fb8eb + etherboot 5.4.2 = error
> syslinux-4.00-pre5-3-g25fb8eb + gpxe 0.9.7+ = error
> 

Could you send me the Etherboot binary you're using?  I'm having no luck
getting Etherboot 5.4.4 to detect the Bochs NE2000 model.

	-hpa

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