[syslinux] Problem with pxelinux 5.10 and memtest86+ 4.20

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Steven Shiau <steven at nchc.org.tw> wrote:
> On 2013/9/12 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
>> ========================

pxelinux.0?

>> 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

Thanks for the details.

I believe this is a result of how/where memtest wants to be loaded.  I
can confirm it's present in 5.11-pre9 but appears resolved for me in
6.02-pre16.  I should be able to test in Workstation-9.0.2 tomorrow.

-- 
-Gene