[syslinux] Chaining with chain.c32 from syslinux 6.01 error
Adrian Irimia
adixtx at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 22 12:45:59 PDT 2013
In qemu (virtual machine) it is working ok.
On a physsical machine syslinux does not boot at all :
SYSLINUX 6.02 EDD 6.02-pre9 ...
Boot error.
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From: Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org>
To: Adrian Irimia <adixtx at yahoo.com>
Cc: "syslinux at zytor.com" <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Chaining with chain.c32 from syslinux 6.01 error
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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