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I have released SYSLINUX 3.08-pre5. Sparse files should now work correctly in extlinux. Symlink support still needs to be added, though. -hpa

Hi I have noticed that some versions of syslinux later than 1.66 fail to install a working boot block on a CF card in Soekris net4521 board. The Bios is: comBIOS ver. 1.05 20020419 Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Soekris Engineering. The card is a 64M Sandisk and I am useing a version of LEAF called WISP-dist but I also experianced the same problem with the Bering distro. Here is my syslinux.cfg: display syslinux.dpy timeout 2 default linux rw initrd=initrd.lrp...

Dear all, I'm trying to boot a recent PXELINUX on a brand new Soekris net4501 (comBIOS 1.33). This combination appears to not work out of the box... I see much advice floating around from a few years ago, hinting that earlier versions of PXELINUX might have worked. However before resorting to archaeology I'd be interested in feedback from others who might have got through this....

...it would be nice to have a work-around 8/11/04, attributed to you: I encountered this problem before. H. Peter Avin (author of sys/iso/pxelinux) gave me the answer that it was improper handling of serial i/o on the part of the soekris' bios. I haven't checked yet, but the release notes for comBIOS 1.26 seem to promise a fix for this problem, so you should probably try upgrading to that. I wont have my box at hand for a couple of weeks, but if its something simple (a bit-mask), perhaps you'd consider it. thanks for all your software (superrescue etc..)

...1 root root 1789 May 5 08:42 extlinux.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root root 9740 May 5 09:03 extlinux.sys soekris:/mnt/flash/boot# ll extlinux.sys -r--r--r-- 1 root root 9320 May 28 2005 extlinux.sys FYI, heres what the current boot process looks like, it goes to PXE 1st cuz I set the bios that way. comBIOS ver. 1.28 20050529 Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Soekris Engineering. net4801 0128 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode 266 Mhz Pri Mas SanDisk SDCFB-512 LBA 993-16-63 500 Mbyte Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Eth...

On 06/10/2014 11:41 AM, Thomas Quinot wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to boot a recent PXELINUX on a brand new Soekris net4501 > (comBIOS 1.33). This combination appears to not work out of the box... > > I see much advice floating around from a few years ago, hinting that > earlier versions of PXELINUX might have worked. However before resorting > to archaeology I'd be interested in feedback from others who might hav...

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~darktama/nouveau/commit/?id=4d60422 also broken with this commit

...0A80102 -------------- PROMPT 1 DEFAULT net4521 LABEL net4521 KERNEL vmlinuz-2.6.6-net4521 ip=:::::eth0:dhcp APPEND console=ttyS0,19200n81 ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc rw initrd=initrd-net4521 IPAPPEND 1 -------------- These are the boot messages I get on my minicom. =========== comBIOS ver. 1.15 20021013 Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Soekris Engineering. net45xx 0064 Mbyte Memory CPU 80486 133 Mhz PXE-M00: BootManage UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082) ..ot Vend Dvv ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int 6HLinux version 2.6.6-net4521 (root at localhost...

...[ 1.774744] [drm:radeon_read_bios], BIOS radeon_read_bios: size: 0x8c00 biosiomemstart: 0xf3060000 [ 1.777717] [drm] radeon_read_bios: succes [ 1.779057] [drm:radeon_get_bios], BIOS headerstart: 0x2077 bios length: 6|8 headerstring 0xc6 0x7c 0x0 0x0 [ 1.784874] [drm:radeon_get_bios], COMBIOS detected [ 1.786811] radeon 0000:00:05.0: Expecting atombios for evergreen GPU [ 1.788255] radeon 0000:00:05.0: Fatal error during GPU init [ 1.789919] [drm] radeon: finishing device. So the address that the radeon_read_bios function uses, also matches. So i''m pretty clueless ho...