[syslinux] Syslinux 5.00 - Doesn't boot my system / Not passing the kernel options to the kernel?

[Matt Fleming]

On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 02:27 +0100, Igor Sverkos wrote:
> I tested a lot of things, but I don't really know what the problem with
> Syslinux 5.00 is. Seems like it has problems with the RAID. I think
> Syslinux 5.00 don't pass the kernel options to the kernel... that's why
> the initramfs's init script doesn't assemble the RAID, don't prompt to
> enter the passphrase... like you can see in the second video.

The problem seems to be that your initramfs isn't being loaded. I
suspect that you're running into the buffer overflow bug in
new_linux_kernel(). I've pushed a fix to git, are you able to build it
and see whether things now work for you?

> BTW: Syslinux 5.00 still cannot boot from mdraid metadata 1.2.

Is this a regression? Has Syslinux ever supported mdraid metadata 1.2?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center