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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/12/2010 09:17 PM, Geza Kovacs wrote:
> On 04/10/2010 10:42 AM, Miller, Shao wrote:
>> If indeed the "safeint" default is where MEMDISK broke for you, you
>> might try some of the alternative modes available in
>> syslinux/doc/memdisk.txt, such as:
>>
>> raw
>> bigraw
>> int
>>
>> on your APPEND line and see if one of them makes a difference.
>>
> 
> Adding any of those 3 options fixes the issue on the 3.86 version.
> 

Very odd... that's the first instance we've seen of "safeint" not
working (and especially of "safeint" working and "int" working...)

Who writes this XMGR memory manager?  It looks like a fairly new piece
of software.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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