[syslinux] Dell OptiPlex GX620 can longer boot from CD with syslinux-5.X

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Wed Jul 3 14:43:36 PDT 2013


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Patrick Verner <distrozilla at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>Could you do screen captures of the output of meminfo.c32 when booting
> ISOLINUX-4.06 as a CD and SYSLINUX-4.06 as a USB?
>
> The results both match for booting 4.06 via CD and USB:

Thanks.

> SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 2012-10-23
> boot: meminfo.c32
> INT 15h = f000:f859  DOS RAM: 639K (0x9fc00)  INT 12h: 639K (0x9fc00)
> INT 15 88: 0xfc00 (64512K)  INT 15 E801: 0x3c00 (15360K) 0xbee8 (3127808K)
>        0 0000000000000000 00000000000a0000 00000000000a0000 1 [-] usable
>        1 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 0000000000100000 2 [-] reserved
>        2 0000000000100000 00000000bfd86c00 00000000bfe86c00 1 [-] usable
>        3 00000000bfe86c00 0000000000002000 00000000bfe88c00 4 [-] ACPI NVS
>        4 00000000bfe88c00 0000000000002000 00000000bfe8ac00 3 [-] ACPI
> reclaim
>        5 00000000bfe8ac00 0000000000175400 00000000c0000000 2 [-] reserved
>        6 00000000e0000000 0000000004000000 00000000e4000000 2 [-] reserved
>        7 00000000fed20000 0000000000080000 00000000feda0000 2 [-] reserved
>        8 00000000fed00000 0000000000000400 00000000fed00400 2 [-] reserved
>        9 00000000fec00000 0000000000100000 00000000fed00000 2 [-] reserved
>        a 00000000fee00000 0000000000100000 00000000fef00000 2 [-] reserved
>        b 00000000ffb00000 0000000000500000 0000000100000000 2 [-] reserved

I forgot that isolinux-debug.bin reordered the timing of when certain
messages are printed within the boot sector.  Could you post the
results of isolinux-debug.bin?

--
-Gene


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