Has anyone had a problem with afud408 (Award flash program) freezing the system when ran from memdisk? The freeze occurs when just running afud408 (not attempting to update bios, although it freezes then as well.) I was using pxelinux/memdisk 3.36, I upgrade to 3.51, and also fell back to 2.11 all have the same issue. I have tried all the switches for memdisk that I saw posted on the memdisk webpage (non wiki). raw/bigraw caused the image to freeze before even booting. (frozen cursor before loading the boot sector?). The disk image is a Windows 95 boot image that I used winimage to expand to 2.88MB. I use this image for all my bios upgrade needs. This seems to occur on a large amount of MSI's latest offerings (w/ award bios) (Specifically: 945gm2, 945gm3 and g965m). I used this same image on a Dell laptop for giggles, and it worked fine (it spit out the usage menu). At this point I am sure it's a bios/pxe issue, but does anyone have any suggestions before I try taking the issue up with MSI? Any idea how I can troubleshoot this further, so that I can give them specifics as to why it locked up? If it isn't clear, this on 10+ different systems, different hardware, different configurations, all hardware has been tested to be good. Thanks in advance, -Andrew
I'm guessing that the image you are booting via memdisk is FreeDOS-based? I've had similar problems with FreeDOS disks images and firmware updates. If that's the case, try copying the update programs to a MS-DOS 6.22 image instead.> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Fr?n: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com > [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] F?r Andrew Stuart > Skickat: den 24 augusti 2007 07:11 > Till: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa > ?mne: [syslinux] pxelinux / memdisk / afud408 freeze. > > Has anyone had a problem with afud408 (Award flash program) > freezing the system when ran from memdisk? > The freeze occurs when just running afud408 (not attempting > to update bios, although it freezes then as well.) > > I was using pxelinux/memdisk 3.36, I upgrade to 3.51, and > also fell back to 2.11 all have the same issue. > > I have tried all the switches for memdisk that I saw posted > on the memdisk webpage (non wiki). raw/bigraw caused the > image to freeze before even booting. (frozen cursor before > loading the boot sector?). The disk image is a Windows 95 > boot image that I used winimage to expand to 2.88MB. I use > this image for all my bios upgrade needs. > > This seems to occur on a large amount of MSI's latest > offerings (w/ award bios) (Specifically: 945gm2, 945gm3 and > g965m). I used this same image on a Dell laptop for giggles, > and it worked fine (it spit out the usage menu). > > At this point I am sure it's a bios/pxe issue, but does > anyone have any suggestions before I try taking the issue up > with MSI? Any idea how I can troubleshoot this further, so > that I can give them specifics as to why it locked up? > > If it isn't clear, this on 10+ different systems, different > hardware, different configurations, all hardware has been > tested to be good. > > Thanks in advance, > > -Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > > >
Andrew Stuart wrote:> Has anyone had a problem with afud408 (Award flash program) freezing the > system when ran from memdisk? > The freeze occurs when just running afud408 (not attempting to update > bios, although it freezes then as well.) > > I was using pxelinux/memdisk 3.36, I upgrade to 3.51, and also fell back > to 2.11 all have the same issue. > > I have tried all the switches for memdisk that I saw posted on the > memdisk webpage (non wiki). raw/bigraw caused the image to freeze before > even booting. (frozen cursor before loading the boot sector?). The disk > image is a Windows 95 boot image that I used winimage to expand to > 2.88MB. I use this image for all my bios upgrade needs. > > This seems to occur on a large amount of MSI's latest offerings (w/ > award bios) (Specifically: 945gm2, 945gm3 and g965m). I used this same > image on a Dell laptop for giggles, and it worked fine (it spit out the > usage menu). > > At this point I am sure it's a bios/pxe issue, but does anyone have any > suggestions before I try taking the issue up with MSI? Any idea how I > can troubleshoot this further, so that I can give them specifics as to > why it locked up? > > If it isn't clear, this on 10+ different systems, different hardware, > different configurations, all hardware has been tested to be good. >Can you boot MEMDISK from media, as opposed to PXE? That way we can at least separate the PXE stack from the rest of the system... -hpa