[syslinux] FW: pxelinux 5.x, 6.x memtest problem

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 09:53:52 PDT 2013


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:

> But, in Syslinux 4.06, there is linux.c32, which is a sort of
> introduction to Syslinux 5.xx (please allow me to be not strictly
> accurate in this sentence in this context).
>
> Booting with any variant of Syslinux 4.06, but using linux.c32,
> memtest would fail, which indicated some kind of problem related to
> the status of Syslinux 5.xx at the time v4.06 was released.


PXELINUX 4.06 with Memtest86-4.20 and Memtest86+-4.20 binaries
(renamed) using LINUX directly works.  Using linux.c32:
"syslinux_boot_linux() failed: Error 0"

PXELINUX 5.10, 5.11-pre3, 6.01-pre5 with binaries LINUX directly:
"Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument"

--
-Gene


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