[syslinux] SYSLINUX stuck on boot about 0.1% of the time

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/20/2013 01:07 PM, Jayen Ashar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We recently switched from grub-legacy to EXTLINUX on our embedded
> devices.  While it works great usually, about one of every thousand
> boots, it gets stuck. [1]  A simple reboot fixes it straight away, but
> that's not really acceptable for our customers, especially since there
> is usually no monitor connected and they can't actually diagnose the
> error, so they simply mark the device as bad.
> 
> Is this from a race condition or memory leak?  Or dodgy hardware?
> Would a newer version of syslinux help?  (We're running 4.02 from
> debian squeeze.)
> 

Upgrading to 4.06 or 5.01 should be your first step.

	-hpa