[syslinux] regression: relocatable kernels on a chromebook

[Scot Doyle]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2015, Ady wrote:
...
> There have been discussions and/or reports somewhat related to this 
> matter during 2013 (Mar-Dec), and reports about failing to boot some 
> kernels with Syslinux 6.03 (2014Q4).
> 
> The topics involved:
> 
> _ Kernels with no protected-mode code (e.g. grub's kernel lnxboot.img 
> initrd=core.img)
> _ bzImage and zImage files
> _ memdisk
> _ grldr, plop(bm)...
> _ memtest (and alternatives), DBAN, several hardware testers...
> _ gPXE/iPXE...
> _ Older kernels and/or kernels for older machines (e.g. PuppyLinux and 
> family and derivatives; I could mention several others)
> _ Non-relocatable and relocatable kernels
> _ Linux kernels prior to version 3.3 and/or with similar "older 
> (EFISTUB) standards", "supposedly" bootable in BIOS and/or (U)EFI 
> systems at the time (e.g. Slackware 14.0 / 14.1, Debian 7 Wheezy, RHEL 
> 6.x / 7 )
> _ BIOS and/or (U)EFI systems
> 
> As a remainder and FWIW, from prior discussions (2014Q4) we have:
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Common_Problems#Linux_EFI_kernels

http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-October/021021.html is the only 
possible match I see on the list, if that helps. Plus the Fedora and Arch 
bug reports.