[syslinux] SysLinux 5.0 - Problems booting via PXE

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/14/2013 07:43 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 04:58 -0800, Shantanu Gadgil wrote:
>> Hi Shao,
>>
>> This is the exact same symptom that I have see on the 4.10 branch on my cluster.
>> This was quite some time back, before the v5 and v6 development started.
>
> Guys, do we know when this bug first appeared? If it's present on the
> 4.10 branch then that means it's not a new bug, since 4.10 doesn't
> contain any 5.00 code, and vice versa.
>
> Though the fact that Herwig says 4.06 works for him is just confusing.
>
> Has anyone else seen this bug where PXELINUX isn't searching through all
> of the config names? If so, what versions are affected?
>

That's not entirely true.  4.10 contains a backport of core malloc() 
from the 5.0x branch, so if this is malloc()-related that may very well 
be a strong hint.

	-hpa

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