[syslinux] Problem with pxelinux 5.10 and memtest86+ 4.20

[Steven Shiau]

On 2013/9/12 上午 11:55, Steven Shiau wrote:
> Deal developers,
> I'd like to follow the thread
> http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2013-April/019761.html
> but change the subject to 'pxelinux 5.10 and memtest86+ 4.20' and
> provide more test cases.
>
> The pxelinux before version 5, e.g. version 4.06, worked very well with
> memtest86+ 4.20, all my PXE client machines, including VMWare
> workstation 9, VirtualBox 4.2, and all the real machines here, like
> Lenovo Thinkpad t410.
> However, after changing to pxelinux 5.10, with my pxelinux config:
> ========================
> label memtest
>    MENU LABEL Memory test using Memtest86+
>    kernel memtest86
> ========================
>
> the client machines, VMWare workstation 9.02 and real machine, like
> Thinkpad t410, fail to boot into memtest. It just returns back to the
> pxelinux boot menu. However, for Virtualbox 4.2 client no such issue.
>
> Besides, we found if I boot the machines mentioned in the above, with CD
> using _isolinux_ 5.10 and memtest86+ 4.20, all successfully boot into
> memtest.
>
> Hope these testing cases help. If you need more info, please let me know.
> Thanks.
>
> Steven.
>
BTW, forgot to mention, the file name "memtest86" used in the above 
config is actually renamed from
http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.bin.gz

Steven.
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