Booting with SYSLINUX on a Digital Celebris GL 5166 ST machine causes the loader to hang. The problem is solved by installing syslinux with the -s option. This problem seems to affect the Celebris GL 5133 ST system as well. According to some older digital support pages they have the same bios and the motherboard seems to be almost identical. The BIOS is a Phoenix BIOS v.4.04 with vendor version v.1.03. There is an update to the vendor version, but I don't have the facilities to install this since it requires an older version of DOS. Other bootloaders : The netbsd bootloader seems to work fine, but there are other issues with netbsd on this machone. The FREEDOS loader crashes on loading with a divide by zero error. More information on the system and error messages available on request. -- Tor Fredrik Aas
Tor Fredrik Aas wrote:> Booting with SYSLINUX on a Digital Celebris GL 5166 ST machine causes the > loader to hang. The problem is solved by installing syslinux with the -s > option. > > This problem seems to affect the Celebris GL 5133 ST system as well. > According to some older digital support pages they have the same bios and > the motherboard seems to be almost identical. > > The BIOS is a Phoenix BIOS v.4.04 with vendor version v.1.03. There is an > update to the vendor version, but I don't have the facilities to install > this since it requires an older version of DOS. > > Other bootloaders : The netbsd bootloader seems to work fine, but there are > other issues with netbsd on this machone. The FREEDOS loader crashes on > loading with a divide by zero error. > > More information on the system and error messages available on request. >Ah yes. Phoenix v4.0x was a very buggy core. The fact that FreeDOS crashes certainly doesn't look promising. Since this appears to be a rather old machine and you have a workaround for it (-s) I will leave this as-is. -hpa