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

[Matt Fleming]

On Mon, 24 Jun, at 10:27:52AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> 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.
 
Urk, sorry about that. This is fixed in 6.01-pre1, which I just
released.

This isn't the result of a failed merge, but I did (clearly) fail to
remember to test booting a kernel under BIOS before releasing 6.00.

Apologies.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center