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Hello, I'm interrested in testing any possible workaroud for the Dell Optiplex GX620 keyboard problem, as I just can't downgrade the BIOS version on each and every Gx620 I have to (re)install ! (Plus I can't find a link to download the old A10 BIOS itself.) Don't hesitate to give me guidance on how to proceed, because I can't find anything relevant on the web...

Same CD. Any Linux distribution without the 5.X series boots on this machine. We can use 4.06 and it boots just fine. It's not the computer's hardware. Like I said, we can take the CD out of the GX620 and place it in the 9010 and it boots. Put 4.06 on the CD, and they both boot. Patrick On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Patrick Verner <distrozilla at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Sorry for the delay, w...

Sorry for the delay, we were too busy drinking and playing with explosives yesterday. :) Here are some tests. We did one on a similar machine and it worked. We deleted the configuration file, obviously. # Dell OptiPlex GX620 ISOLINUX 5.11 5.11-pre7 isolinux: Starting up, DL = 82 isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = 82 isolinux: Main image LBA = 00000115 isolinux: Image checksum error, sorry... # Dell OptiPlex GX620 ISOLINUX 4.06 0x513e88f5 isolinux: Starting up, DL = 82 isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = 82...

...l.com> wrote: > Sorry for the delay, we were too busy drinking and playing with explosives > yesterday. :) No problem. Many do that here. > Here are some tests. We did one on a similar machine and it worked. > We deleted the configuration file, obviously. > > # Dell OptiPlex GX620 > ISOLINUX 5.11 5.11-pre7 > isolinux: Starting up, DL = 82 > isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = 82 > isolinux: Main image LBA = 00000115 > isolinux: Image checksum error, sorry... > > # Dell OptiPlex GX620 > ISOLINUX 4.06 0x513e88f5 > isolinux: Starting up, DL = 82...

...n 7/6/2013 09:20, Patrick Verner wrote: > > Same CD. Any Linux distribution without the 5.X series boots on this > machine. We can use 4.06 and it boots just fine. It's not the > computer's > hardware. Like I said, we can take the CD out of the GX620 and > place it in > the 9010 and it boots. Put 4.06 on the CD, and they both boot. > > > That error message (about the checksum) comes from core/isolinux.asm > in move_verify_image, if I'm not mistaken. A wild guess would be > that an unexpected...

...Any Linux distribution without the 5.X series > boots on this > machine. We can use 4.06 and it boots just fine. It's > not the > computer's > hardware. Like I said, we can take the CD out of the > GX620 and > place it in > the 9010 and it boots. Put 4.06 on the CD, and they > both boot. > > > That error message (about the checksum) comes from > core/isolinux.asm > in move_verify_image, if I'm no...

> Here are some tests. We did one on a similar machine and it worked. > We deleted the configuration file, obviously. > > # Dell OptiPlex GX620 > ISOLINUX 5.11 5.11-pre7 > isolinux: Starting up, DL = 82 > isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = 82 > isolinux: Main image LBA = 00000115 > isolinux: Image checksum error, sorry... > > # Dell OptiPlex GX620 > ISOLINUX 4.06 0x513e88f5 > isolinux: Starting up, DL = 82...

This same system boots with syslinux-4.06. Let me know if there is any further info you need. We tried syslinux-5.11-pre5 as well. Patrick Verner partedmagic.com

On Jul 2, 2013 7:37 PM, "Patrick Verner" <distrozilla at gmail.com> wrote: > > System: Dell OptiPlex GX620 (Both BIOS A10 and A11 affected) > Medium: Physical CD-RW > Observed: ISOLINUX 5.11 0x51D1AE48 ETCD_ is the only line displayed > on-screen. A flashing cursor trails at the end of the line. Escape key does Is "ISOLINUX 5.11 0x51D1AE48 ETCD_" (assuming the '_' is the curs...

...n image read, jumping to main code... > > I created an iso with isolinux-debug.bin as the boot loader and booted it > on that machine. If this is not what you are looking for, what are correct > steps? Sorry I wasn't specific. Could you try isolinux-debug.bin from 5.11-pre7 on the GX620? > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Patrick Verner <distrozilla at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>>Could you do screen captures of the output of meminfo.c32 when booting >> &...

System: Dell OptiPlex GX620 (Both BIOS A10 and A11 affected) Medium: Physical CD-RW Observed: ISOLINUX 5.11 0x51D1AE48 ETCD_ is the only line displayed on-screen. A flashing cursor trails at the end of the line. Escape key does not return boot: prompt. Line1 of syslinux.cfg: DEFAULT vesamenu.c32 Note: Reverting to syslinux-4....

I'm not exactly sure what you need. Is this it? ISOLINUX 4.06 0x513e88f5 isolinux: Starting up, DL = 82 isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = 82 isolinux: Main image LBA = 0000011D isolinux: Main image read, jumping to main code... I created an iso with isolinux-debug.bin as the boot loader and booted it on that machine. If this is not what you are looking for, what are correct steps?

...USB? I'm guessing this information will likely help. > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jul 2, 2013 7:37 PM, "Patrick Verner" <distrozilla at gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > System: Dell OptiPlex GX620 (Both BIOS A10 and A11 affected) >> > Medium: Physical CD-RW >> > Observed: ISOLINUX 5.11 0x51D1AE48 ETCD_ is the only line displayed >> > on-screen. A flashing cursor trails at the end of the line. Escape key >> does >> >> Is "ISOLINUX 5.11 0x51D1A...

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Patrick Verner <distrozilla at gmail.com> wrote: > This same system boots with syslinux-4.06. Let me know if there is > any further info you need. We tried syslinux-5.11-pre5 as well. What do you actually observe? Perhaps BIOS rev A11 and not A10 or earlier? Regular physical CD and not an ISOHYBRID written to disk-like media or loaded with

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Patrick Verner <distrozilla at gmail.com> wrote: >>>Could you do screen captures of the output of meminfo.c32 when booting > ISOLINUX-4.06 as a CD and SYSLINUX-4.06 as a USB? > > The results both match for booting 4.06 via CD and USB: Thanks. > SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 2012-10-23 > boot: meminfo.c32 > INT 15h = f000:f859 DOS RAM: 639K

...to do as much testing as required. If you need anything, let us know. Patrick On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 2, 2013 7:37 PM, "Patrick Verner" <distrozilla at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > System: Dell OptiPlex GX620 (Both BIOS A10 and A11 affected) > > Medium: Physical CD-RW > > Observed: ISOLINUX 5.11 0x51D1AE48 ETCD_ is the only line displayed > > on-screen. A flashing cursor trails at the end of the line. Escape key > does > > Is "ISOLINUX 5.11 0x51D1AE48 ETCD_" (assumin...

...information will likely help. > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Jul 2, 2013 7:37 PM, "Patrick Verner" <distrozilla at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > System: Dell OptiPlex GX620 (Both BIOS A10 and A11 affected) > >> > Medium: Physical CD-RW > >> > Observed: ISOLINUX 5.11 0x51D1AE48 ETCD_ is the only line displayed > >> > on-screen. A flashing cursor trails at the end of the line. Escape key > >> does > >> > >>...

On 15 Nov 2014 05:06:52 +0200, Ady wrote: > > I would start by updating the BIOS. Prudent advice. As it turns out, I'm already at the latest version. On 15 Nov 2014 07:31:27 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > And would reduce 'iPXE => pxe.0 => lpxelinux.0 => "vmlinux"' > into 'iPXE => "vmlinux"' That makes sense generally, but at

...he same error message and results occur when PXE-booting and MEMDISK-loading a FreeDOS hard disk image. MEMDISK 3.83 (and previous) versions work properly, but any version beyond the 3.83 (including the 4.x series) do not work so properly. I thought this occurrence was unique to OptiPlex GX280 and GX620 systems, but a number of Latitude notebooks have joined the party. Below is the rundown of systems and MEMDISK results. initrd image: c.img (A FreeDOS image) extracted from the following archive: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/guestos/freedos-img.tar.gz -------------------------------------------...

I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. Check the log for more information" It never gets to the interactive menu. Now that I've disabled the no...