[syslinux] memdisk and iso

[Gene Cumm]

On Jun 6, 2013 5:42 PM, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/06/2013 02:40 PM, upen wrote:
> >
> > Some odd things I observed just now.
> > 1. Since yesterday, I have been reseting the client box from Virtualbox
VM
> > menu (Reset option). This always showed me com32 vesamenu.c32 message.
> > 2. Some time ago, I decided I power off the client VM( Close->poweroff
from
> > Menu). This time I saw the menu. It didn't show the background jpg
though.
> > Anyways I chose the menu option for loading ISO. It returned me the same
> > menu options, while showing file not found messages at the bottom of the
> > screen.
> > 3. I tried reset as in (1), again com32 -vesamenu.c32 message as stated
> > earlier.
> > 4. Power off , power on . No menu this time. Shows the
com32-vesamenu.c32
> > message as stated earlier.
> >
> > No such issues with pxelinux.0 though.
> >
> > I am now rebooting TFTP/DHCP server and see if that helps  to any level.
> >
>
> Sounds like it's losing lots of packets.
>
>         -hpa
>

What PXE OROM is being used?  VirtualBox version?

While working on 4.10-pre, I recall cases others saw with
dropped/intercepted packets and observed a race in a VM when it was using
the wrong lwIP call.  I was working on some verbose debug code that should
help but need to port it up and finish it.

--Gene