[syslinux] [bug] 6.00: No linux boot function

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 24.06.2013 04:10, schrieb Gene Cumm:
> In trying Syslinux-6.00 bios/core/pxelinux.0 with a 3.0.21 kernel, I got"
> 
> "No linux boot function registered for firmware
> Booting kernel failed: Bad file number"
> 
> Using Syslinux-5.10, the same kernel/initrd succeeds.
> 
> Screenshot, kernel and initrd available but I'm figuring this is an
> issue in the BIOS loader not handling things as it should.

As far as I can see, this is an issue of the BIOS firmware not handling
things at all - there is not even a code path to the function that boots
Linux via BIOS. I can only guess that this is a result of a failed merge
followed by not testing 6.00 on BIOS before releasing it.


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