[syslinux] Problem with pxelinux 5.0 and memtest

[Maximilian Pasternak]

Hi there,

----- Original Message -----
From: koxudaxi at gmail.com
To: syslinux at zytor.com
Date: 01.04.2013 10:00:27
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Problem with pxelinux 5.0 and memtest


> On 04/01/2013 09:28 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 03/31/2013 05:26 PM, Koudai Aono wrote:
>>> I ran the test on a x86 emulator is called Oracle VirtualBox.
>>> I think it might not be standard trouble ,because  the machine is not
>>> real machine.
>>> but, same memtest binary can boot on pxelinux 4.0.6.

i tried these combinations using VirtualBox 4.2.10:

pxelinux.0  v5.01  +  memtest86 4.20 (memdisk + iso)
pxelinux.0  v5.01  +  memtest86 4.20 (memtest extracted from iso)
pxelinux.0  v5.01  +  memtest86+ 4.20 (memdisk + iso)
pxelinux.0  v5.01  +  memtest86+ 4.20 (memtest.bin)
pxelinux.0  v5.01  +  memtest86+ 5.00RC1 (memtest.bin)

pxelinux.0  v5.10pre2  +  memtest86 4.20 (memdisk + iso)
pxelinux.0  v5.10pre2  +  memtest86 4.20 (memtest extracted from iso)
pxelinux.0  v5.10pre2  +  memtest86+ 4.20 (memdisk + iso)
pxelinux.0  v5.10pre2  +  memtest86+ 4.20 (memtest.bin)
pxelinux.0  v5.10pre2  +  memtest86+ 5.00RC1 (memtest.bin)

All of these worked OK.

> i tried booting two versions of pxelinux on NEC 5800/GT110[Corei7 860].
> pxelinux returned to the bootmenu when i selected memtest4.2 on the 
> bootmenu.
> also other machines can't boot memtest4.2 on 5.10-pre3 + 5.01.
> but, i checked pxelinux 4.0.6 + memtest4.2 can boot on same environments.

Please check/post your configuration and the layout of your tftp-folder.

Best regards

Maximilian