[syslinux] EFI: HP + syslinux = crash

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 19:57:07 PDT 2015


On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Patrick Masotta <masottaus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>  >> OK your HP has 4 NICs
>  >>
>  >> DevicePath(0x0,0x0)/MAC(ECB1D775E524,0x0)
>  >> DevicePath(0x0,0x1)/MAC(ECB1D775E525,0x0))
>  >> DevicePath(0x0,0x2)/MAC(ECB1D775E526,0x0))
>  >> DevicePath(0x0,0x3)/MAC(ECB1D775E527,0x0))
>
>  According to HP it's actually one nic with four ports. I cannot disable
>  them individually.
>  <<<
>
> I see. From an EFI point of view you have 4 NICs

I've still seen firmwares that allow me to disable those NIC ports
individually, though it was buried inside another menu.

>  >>>
>  > git://git.zytor.com/users/genec/syslinux.git
>  > git://github.com/geneC/syslinux.git
>  >
>  > Commit e466d24 on branch efi-multinic
>  >[...]
>  > Oscar, I'd love to hear your feedback on this commit.  If it still
>  > fails with the General Protection Exception, I'd like to try sending
>  > you some binaries, just to rule out your build system.
>
>  Can you please send me the binaries as I still have no luck. Still I get
>  random Exceptions or reboots shortly after displaying 'My IP is...'.
>
>  However(!) I did see attempts at loading ldlinux.e64 and more in the logs.
> <<<
>
> Please try Gene binaries; if you see attempts to load ldlinux.e64
> then the multi-nic issue seems to be solved.
> I have seen problems similar to the one you describe now when
> I was building under Ubuntu, since I moved to Debian 7 problems stopped.

Sent privately.

Side note: sounds like there's yet other negative build interactions around.

-- 
-Gene


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