[syslinux] EXTLINUX

[Gene Cumm]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 16:44, Collins, Cris <cris.collins at gd-ais.com> wrote:
> It hangs at the blinking cursor right after the BIOS finishes initializing
> the system. The partition on the usb drive is marked as active. I tried with
> the -z option as well, however I don't think it was necessary because I had
> been somewhat successful using Lilo. I had some problems compiling 4.0 under
> RHEL 5.4 so I moved to 3.86.
>
>
> nasm -f elf -Ox -g -F dwarf -DDATE_STR="'0x4c2a4af8'" \
>               -DHEXDATE="0x4c2a4af8" \
>               -l pxelinux.lsr -o pxelinux.o -MP -MD .pxelinux.o.d
> pxelinux.asm
> ld -m elf_i386  -T syslinux.ld -M -o pxelinux.elf pxelinux.o \
>               --start-group libcore.a ../com32/lib/libcomcore.a
> /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/libgcc.a --end-group \
>               > pxelinux.map
> objdump -h pxelinux.elf > pxelinux.sec
> perl lstadjust.pl pxelinux.lsr pxelinux.sec pxelinux.lst
> objcopy -O binary pxelinux.elf pxelinux.raw
> ./lzo/prepcore pxelinux.raw pxelinux.bin
> ./lzo/prepcore: pxelinux.raw: output too big (30197, max 0)
> make[1]: *** [pxelinux.bin] Error 1
> rm ldlinux.raw isolinux-debug.raw pxelinux.raw isolinux.raw ldlinux.o
> pxelinux.o isolinux.o isolinux-debug.o
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/syslinux-4.00/core'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>

Try to use the pre-compiled binaries.  Sometimes the build system may
be to blame for some issues.  Trying the pre-compiled binaries
eliminates that variable.

1) You won't need to verify that your build system is up to snuff.
NASM is one of the big ones.  If you don't have everything at the
proper version, it might not compile well if at all.

2) This makes diagnosing the issue easier as everyone will have these
same binaries.

-- 
-Gene