[syslinux] EFI: HP + syslinux = crash

[Oscar Roozen]

On 05-08-15 02:27, Gene Cumm wrote:
>> tried without Gene's latest patches crashing before even beginning to load
>> the first stage: ldlinux.e64?
>
> It _probably_ had issues finding the NIC properly.

Of course, and your latest patches solved this problem. But I should 
have been more clear. What happened was:

1 - HP ROM FW: Download syslinux.efi
2 - HP ROM FW: Run syslinux.efi
3 - Syslinux: Try to download ldlinux.e64
4 - *CRASH*

Now it is:


1 - HP ROM FW: Download syslinux.efi
2 - HP ROM FW: Run syslinux.efi
3 - Syslinux: Try to download ldlinux.e64
4 - Syslinux: Invoke ldlinux.e64
     [...]
5 - Syslinux: Try to run vesamenu.c32
6 - *CRASH*

In both cases *CRASH* can either be a spontanious reboot or one of a 
selection of Exceptions reported in red on black. Due to the randomness 
of the crashes my bet would be on an overwritten return address or 
longjmp address somewhere.

In both cases there should be some error message or an exit back to the 
firmware bootloader indicating a failure to startup.

So, while the multinic issue is solved (thanks!!!), there still is 
something wrong. And it could be the same issue in both cases.