[syslinux] Chaining with chain.c32 from syslinux 6.01 error

Matt Fleming matt at console-pimps.org
Mon Jul 22 06:37:44 PDT 2013


On Mon, 22 Jul, at 12:07:34PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul, at 01:22:04PM, Adrian Irimia wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> >   I have a bootable usb with syslinux 5.10 on wich the following code is working ok.
> >     LABEL -
> >    MENU LABEL GRUB LEGACY
> >    MENU INDENT 1
> >      COM32 chain.c32
> >      APPEND boot fs grub=/boot/grub-legacy/stage2 grubcfg=/boot/grub-legacy/grub-legacy.cfg nohand nosect
> >  
> >  After upgrading to syslinux 6.01 (using bios) I receive the following errors when selecting that menu option :
> >  
> >   ERR: Primary partition (in MBR) with invalid offset and/or length.
> >   ERR: Cant't find myself on the drive I booted from.
> >  
> >  I mention that the errors are on a physsical machine (not a virtual one - in a virtual qemu I receive only the 2nd error message).
>  
> Thanks for the report, I can reproduce this bug. I'll take a look.
 
Adrian, could you try 6.02-pre9?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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