[syslinux] Syslinux 4.04-pre14: anything missing please holler

[Gert Hulselmans]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Gene Cumm wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 18:49, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>>> If there is anything that you think should have been in Syslinux 4.04
>>> which isn't there please holler now.
>>>
>>>        -hpa
>>
>> I'm not sure if there's time but...
>>
> -snip-
>>
>> The entire banner is displayed and then it seems to hang.  After
>> waiting about 12 seconds my VM displayed some strange "extended" ASCII
>> pattern then 2 seconds later rebooted.
>
> I also experience a problem with 4.04pre14 on a test ISO image using Qemu
> 0.14.0. Syslinux boots but gets stuck immediately at:
>
>      ISOLINUX 4.04 4.04-pre14 ETCD
>
> While the same image does work fine with 4.03.
>
> Images was created using:
>
> ----
> TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d temp.XXXX)
> mkdir -p $TEMPDIR/syslinux/
> cp -av /usr/share/syslinux/*.{c32,com} $TEMPDIR/syslinux/
> cp -av /usr/share/syslinux/isolinux.bin $TEMPDIR/syslinux/
> cp -ab maps/ $TEMPDIR/syslinux/
> cp -av syslinux.cfg $TEMPDIR/syslinux/
> mkisofs -quiet -o testiso.iso -b syslinux/isolinux.bin -c
> syslinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table
> $TEMPDIR
> rm -rf $TEMPDIR
> ----
>
> I will see if I can reproduce it tomorrow with a simple configuration as
> well.
>
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I did a few tests:

- Installing Syslinux to a ext4 partition:
    ==> Syslinux hangs after displaying the banner
    ==> recompiling whole Syslinux fixes the issue
- Making an iso with the precompiled isolinux.bin
    ==> hangs after displaying the banner
    ==> recompiling whole Syslinux fixes the issue

So try:
  make spotless
  make

- Gert Hulselmans