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

[Erwan Velu]

Le 20/02/2013 22:07, Jayen Ashar a écrit :
> 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.)
>
>
Can you define where and how you consider extlinux as stuck ?