[syslinux] Boot from local disk broken with 3.85-pre5?

[John Rouillard]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:20:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 02:33 PM, John Rouillard wrote:
> > 
> > Has anybody seen a similar problem, or are there any code changes that
> > could explain this?
> 
> There are substantial code changes in 3.85-pre5 related to this area (in
> order to support gpxelinux.)
> 
> Could you give me as much details about your hardware as is possible?

The system bios is AMIBIOS Version 08.00.14, Build Date:11/01/07, Bios
Ref 8.14.  The network card bios is:
                                                                               
  NVIDIA Boot Agent 244.0538

Hdt show summary reports:

 Manufacturer : AMD
 Product      : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216
 CPU Cores    : 2
 L2 Cache     : 1024K
 Features     : 0 Mhz : x86_64 64bit SMP HwVIRT
System
 Manufacturer : Supermicro
 Product Name : H8DMR-82
 Serial       : 1234567890
Bios
 Version      : 080014
 Release      : 11/01/2007
Memory Size   : 8192 MB (8388212 KB)
PCI
 NB Devices   : 23
PXE
 PCI device no: 11
 Manufacturer : nVidia Corporation
 Product      : MCP55 Ethernet
Kernel modules
  i2c_nforce2 # sata_nv # forcedeth # k8_edac # k8temp # 

What else would you like? I have hdt available to boot into, so if you
can give me some hdt commands to get the info you need I can run them.

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				-- rouilj

John Rouillard       System Administrator
Renesys Corporation  603-244-9084 (cell)  603-643-9300 x 111