[syslinux] MEMDISK issue with OptiPlex GX280,620

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 24 16:48:48 PST 2011


On 01/03/2011 11:12 AM, Jason Vasquez wrote:
> Happy New Year to all; and please do pardon my digging this topic back up. I attempted to send for testing my disk image via a private email to Gene, but did not have confirmation of it being delivered/received. Could the attachment have exceeded a mail server limit? That's my concern - call me paranoid.
> 
> Given Gene's discovery of the BCM5751 [14e4:1677] being a common denominator to the GX280 and GX620  Dell systems, I am intrigued by what this might hold for any possible alterations to MEMDISK or workarounds.
> 
> If there is some way that I might be able to help in testing, then I'm open. Thanks again for everyone offering their time and responses.
> 

I think the only way this can happen is if probe_drive() is broken.  It
would be useful to put some debugging messages in dskprobe.c (or at
least enable DBG_DSKPROBE) and see what is going on there.

	-hpa




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