[syslinux] Problem with pxelinux 5.0 and memtest

[Matt Fleming]

On Tue, 12 Feb, at 10:21:32AM, Wim Janssen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is my first post to this list.
> After searching through the archives and google searches I could not find a solution
> for my memtest problem.
> 
> In previous versions of pxelinux/gpxelinux (4.04 and 4.06) I could successfully
> start the memtest utility.  But using pxelinux/gpxelinux versions 5.01 and 5.02 the
> memtest utility does not boot and I get an error message:
> boot:
> Loading memtest420... ok
> Booting kernel failed: Bad file number
> (The same error message for memtest versions 1.55 and 4.00)

Peter, I think this is the bug that appears with the shuffler code
that we were trying to diagnose before (though I'm not suggesting the
bug is *in* the shuffler code).

Wim, are you able to build Syslinux from source? If you've got your
machines hooked up to a serial console the best chance we have of
debugging this is for you to uncomment the following line in
mk/devel.mk,

    # GCCWARN += -DDEBUG_PORT=0x3f8 -DDEBUG=1 

and send us the console output.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center