[syslinux] syslinux 4.02 hangs at "boot:"

[Alex Zeffertt]

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 15:54 +0000, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 09:36, Alex Zeffertt <alex.zeffertt at eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 12:49 +0000, Gene Cumm wrote:
> >> 4) Do you have any machines that are identical to this machine that
> >> have differing success?  If so, I'd compare BIOS versions.  I had one
> >> machine that actually caused more issues with a BIOS upgrade as there
> >> was a new memory hole around 32-64MiB.  I know that for Linux kernels,
> >> linux.c32 has the new "loader" (I know there's a better word but can't
> >> remember it; basically how it loads files into memory in order to work
> >> around the memory holes) but I don't know what strategy mboot.c32
> >> uses.
> >>
> >
> > Yes we have two machines with
> >
> >  "CPU: Family - 15, Model - 65, Stepping - 2"
> >
> > one works and the other does not.  On the working one dmidecode shows
> > the following BIOS:
> >
> >        Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
> >        Version: 080014
> >        Release Date: 10/06/2006
> >
> > and the not-working one has the following BIOS:
> >
> >        Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
> >        Version: 080011
> >        Release Date: 08/28/2006
> >
> > Could this explain the difference in behaviour?
> 
> Easily.  I'd recommend upgrading the non-working machine.
> 

Thanks Gene: you were right!  We upgraded the BIOS to v2.05 (Release
Date  11/05/2008) and it now boots fine.

Thanks again,

Alex