[syslinux] Bug-report: Memdisk regression for XMGR DOS memory manager

[Geza Kovacs]

On 04/10/2010 02:59 AM, Geza Kovacs wrote:
> On 04/10/2010 01:57 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 04/09/2010 10:41 PM, Geza Kovacs wrote:
>>> For the boot floppy at http://superkeen.com/peacecorpsfiles/FUZOMA14.IMG
>>> using memdisk from syslinux version 3.72 boots correctly, but for
>>> memdisk versions newer than 3.72 (I tested 3.73, 3.75, 3.85, and 3.86)
>>> all hang at boot with the following message:
>>
>> Could you try the 3.73 prereleases to narrow down the problem, or if you
>> have the ability to do a "git bisect" that would be even better?
>>
>> 	-hpa
>>
> 
> Among the 3.73 prereleases, pre2 boots correctly, while pre3 and pre4
> have the hanging issue.

Additionally, the commit 50b496340e63a7d81c6033b739381af2858d8ac2 works
correctly, so the problematic commit is apparently
02b692d367343df7eed8c1b1a0f435424e8b3a56 (MEMDISK: default to "safeint"
mode)