[syslinux] Defect ISO generation after yum upgrade

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Mar 29 17:49:55 PDT 2012


On 03/29/2012 09:39 AM, Morten B. Christensen wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> You did hit it spot on !!!
> 
> I had build a new version of our appliance and a week before upgraded from vmware fusion 3 to 4, everything else works on fusion 4. Sun Virtualbox drives the appliance without any problem.
> 
> I have no idea why my own version of linux doesn't run on fusion when other does. My appliance has a single VERY SIMPLE kernel and a 24MB big initramfs - it might be the big initfile that does the difference.
> 
> But anyhows it would be great if isolinux had a bigger vocabulary - I've seen the error message 'Loading failed' used to many times. I guess it's the kernel thats actually producing the error message but don't know for sure.
> 
> THANKS THANKS
> 

VMware's BIOSes are notoriously buggy.

Could you run meminfo.c32 on the Syslinux command prompt under the new
VMware fusion?

	-hpa




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