Syslinux - Jul 2008 - reloading extlinux.conf freezes the system

Hi,

I figured it has nothing to do with menu.c32.  With the following
extlinux.conf:

    label reload
      config extlinux.conf

invoking reload from the boot prompt freezes under QEMU.  Can anybody
reproduce this?  Is this a bug or am I trying something stupid?  Or
just a corner case better left ignored?
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Thanks,
Feri.

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I figured it has nothing to do with menu.c32.  With the following
> extlinux.conf:
> 
>     label reload
>       config extlinux.conf
> 
> invoking reload from the boot prompt freezes under QEMU.  Can anybody
> reproduce this?  Is this a bug or am I trying something stupid?  Or
> just a corner case better left ignored?
Sounds like a bug to me, and I would definitely *not* call it a corner 
case, either; this sounds like a serious bug in something that is 
supposed to be core functionality.

	-hpa

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I figured it has nothing to do with menu.c32.  With the following
>> extlinux.conf:
>>
>>     label reload
>>       config extlinux.conf
>>
>> invoking reload from the boot prompt freezes under QEMU.  Can anybody
>> reproduce this?  Is this a bug or am I trying something stupid?  Or
>> just a corner case better left ignored?
> 
> Sounds like a bug to me, and I would definitely *not* call it a corner 
> case, either; this sounds like a serious bug in something that is 
> supposed to be core functionality.
> 
I just tried this, and it works just fine for me, using syslinux 
3.71-pre10 (under extlinux, of course.)

	-hpa