[syslinux] boot... round 2

[poma]

On 01.07.2015 12:10, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 4:35 AM, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> To remind you once again.
>> ISOLINUX >= 6.00 built with GCC >= 5.0.0 causes a broken boot.
>> This relates specifically to the use of the vesamenu.c32,
>> menu.c32 works without problemos.
> 
> isolinux-debug.bin is not for diagnosing issues with *menu.c32.  Let's
> start over since your problem statement has a bit of confusion.
> 
> 1) You never said if you saw tests to get just the core (isolinux.bin
> and ldlinux.c32) loaded.  Did you try my simple config?
> 
> 
> #syslinux.cfg-begin
> DEFAULT linux
> PROMPT 1
> 
> LABEL linux
>   LINUX vmlinuz
>   APPEND initrd=myinitrd.cgz my-options
> #syslinux.cfg-end
> 

PASSED

> 
> 2) If that passes, the core is OK and let's look at loading simple
> COM32s like ls.c32.  Does ls.c32 work?
> 

PASSED

> 3) If that passes, reading the file system and loading linked
> libraries are OK.  Next, from a "boot: " prompt with the simple
> config, execute "menu.c32" or "vesamenu.c32"
> 

PASSED -and- PASSED

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syslinux-6.04-pre1