[syslinux] Looking for debugging ideas and help with testing

Ferenc Wagner wferi at niif.hu
Wed Dec 15 06:01:50 PST 2010


Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:

> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
>
>> That is the handover information.
>
> To summarize our IRC conversation: I tested a Dell Latitude E6410.  It
> simply refuses to boot the squeeze beta2 HD image with "Boot error".
> Gene's handover MBR outputs the following:
>
> DL: 80  DS: 0000  SI: 0000
>  00 C5 00 F0 20 C5 00 F0 28 61 00 F0 20 C5 00 F0
> ES: F000  DI: E2D0
>  24 50 6E 50 =$PnP
> $PnP-F000:E2D0
>
> You noticed that DS:SI=0:0 and uploaded 4.04-pre3 with an extra check
> for that.  I'll recheck this machine with the fix tomorrow.

Bad news: the test resulted in no change: still "Boot error".  QEMU
shows the 4.04-pre3 banner and still works perfectly, though.
-- 
Regards,
Feri.




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