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hi Peter, everyone, I recently installed extlinux on my CF drive. after a few botches, it works, with menu.c32 too. Heres a few notes/observations: - menuing seems pretty sensitive to presence of tabs in extlinux.conf, unlike with pxelinux.cfg/default, Is this an oversight, or something Im misremembering ? - extlinux doesnt have the timeout after menu-choice. if I dont choose, it times out and

At first I thought, I was dealing with the known EBIOS/CBIOS-problem. The symptom was exactly the same (hangs at ...EBIOS). As 3.10-pre8 and 3.10-pre9, in contrary what was mentioned in the ML, did not bring any improvement, I looked deeper into what could be my specific problem. I found out that the program just halted at 'cmp [esi],edx' (line 658; ldlinux.asm 3.10-pre9)! By replacing

Hi All, A colleague of mine is using syslinux-3.20-pre8, syslinux.com, under DOS to install syslinux loader. It gives "sector read error". He re-compiled syslinux.com under a linux box, and used it successfully to install the loader from DOS. He is installing it on a hard drive (C:) He booted from a floppy and ran: "syslinux.com C:" at A:\ prompt He tried with

Im trying to get 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 (which includes klibc) working on an nfs-root setup. Its not working, so I started adding printf()s (not printk()s !) 1st thing I notice is arg5 is empty, but arg 6 is real I could imagine this unexpected situation confusing kinit (will check..) Or is that empty arg intentional, so that it marks the beginning of pxelinux addons ? kinit:main: init-arg 0: /init

I have been looking for a replacement bootloader that will hide all output and just boot the linux kernel. I was using grub, but that output way too much information. I just tried extlinux and am liking it a lot more than grub. I would like to have absolutely no output at all though. By setting the PROMPT to 0 it removes everything but the title. Is there a setting that removes the

From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan at cl.cam.ac.uk> Fix register constraints of final jump to kernel entry. When compiled with some GCC versions, mboot.c32 would clobber the kernel load address and try to jump to 0x2badb002. Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan at cl.cam.ac.uk> --- --- syslinux-3.20-pre8/com32/modules/mboot.c.orig 2006-05-22 11:06:17.000000000 +0100 +++

I'm building pxe-booted kiosk systems using pxelinux 3.09 and linux kernel 2.6.14. I noticed a discussion on this list that 3.09 supports a 511 character command line but that the kernel would need to be patched to access it beyond 255. How can I patch the kernel to do so? Andrew Lambe Systems Programmer Information Technology Oral Roberts University Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tested floppy boot on two machines (one PII 350, one 486DX4) Floppy boot with syslinux is very very slow, more than 18 mn to boot a linux kernel from floppy on the 2 machines. Tested with 3 different disquettes that were know to work, boot is reached after this very long time. Noise from floppy head make think floppy wait approximatly one minute between each read. No problem with pxe boot with

I gave extlinux a whirl, 1. installed debian onto a usb hard drive from laptop (onto /dev/sda1) did *not* install grub or lilo. 2. set up extlinux on /dev/sda # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/t1 [root at harpo syslinux-3.00]# cd /mnt/t1/ [root at harpo t1]# ls boot/ config-2.6.8-1-386 initrd.img-2.6.8-1-386 System.map-2.6.8-1-386 vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386 [root at harpo t1]# mkdir boot/extlinux [root

I'm attempting to PXE boot a XEN dom0 kernel version 2.6.16, xen version 3.0.2-2. I've built syslinux-3.20-pre8 from source and am using the following config: DEFAULT mboot.c32 xen-3.0.2-2.gz dom0_mem=258048 --- vmlinuz-2.6.16-xen0 ro console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda1 --- initrd.img Where initrd.img is my own custom initrd that I've built to do some pre-setup before booting to the real

Hi, well, I was finally able to build syslinux-5.11-pre8 from git, but the system doesn't boot with the self-compiled version. All I see is: http://666kb.com/i/cfplluqpcy6owptq3.jpg Build log can be found in http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-July/020452.html After I installed the self-compiled syslinux version, I run this commands: # cd /boot/extlinux # rm -rf *.c32 # extlinux

I do think keeping the default behavior is desirable for backwards compatibility; my suggestion is not to change default behavior but to add an optional argument that allows a different behavior. Although this can be implemented in a user-defined function, retaining empty matches facilitates programmatic use, and seems to be something that should be available in base R. It is available, for

Okay, now, before 3.10 is finalized... what bug reports am I still forgetting? -hpa

Hi A Optiplex GX270 with bios A06 (latest) freezes at the menu when I use 3.08pre5. Setup was simple menu (menu.c32) and pxe. When I tested with 3.07 everything worked as normal. I Have not had any problem with 3.08pre5 in other tests and machines. Also but not that important, I learned that for the hotkey highlight to work It must be uppercase for me. If lowercase the goto still works but

> > To be clear, I am not saying there is no bug - there might be. > I performed the following test with several versions of Syslinux: 1_ Execute: 'extlinux --once=non_default_label --install /mnt/sda1' ; 2_ In first reboot, the "non_default_label" should be executed; 3_ In second reboot, the default label should be executed. Results: _ 4.05 to 4.07: OK. _

Hello, I noticed after upgrading from 3.20, I haven't been able to get syslinux to boot properly with menu.c32 or mboot.c32 from a USB key. I get an error saying invalid kernel when its trying to load menu.c32 or mboot.c32 (or any other kernel for that matter). I tried 3.35 and 3.36-pre5. Same exact behaviour. I'm using the following to compile: gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux

Changes in 3.10: * gcc 4.0.1 compilation fixes. * Add support for querying the PCI BIOS in libcom32 (used by ethersel et al.) * Fix PCI handing (ethersel etc) on several old chipsets (and VMWare.) * Try to deal with systems with broken EBIOS. * New API call to do "localboot". * New API call to query features.

I just picked up 3.10-pre15 and the "PXELINUX corrupts graphic filename referenced from DISPLAY file" bug is zapped. Yipee! Thanks hpa. And Arwin too, if that 'xor esi,esi' was the crux. However, LOCALBOOT -1 and LOCALBOOT 0 don't work the same as they did for me in 3.07. :-( 3.07: LOCALBOOT -1 apears to work as I have a hard disk listed in bios boot order after the

SYSLINUX 3.11-pre5 is hereby a bug fix release candidate. If I don't receive any problem reports, I will release it as-is on Tuesday, August 30. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

Im trying to use pxelinux-4.02 + memdisk as follows LABEL voyage-current MENU LABEL ^C. voyage-current LINUX memdisk INITRD voyage-current.iso APPEND iso raw console=ttyS0,115200n81 panic=5 pause LABEL voyage-0.6.5 MENU LABEL ^6. voyage-0.6.5 LINUX memdisk INITRD voyage-0.6.5.iso APPEND iso raw console=ttyS0,115200n81 panic=5 pause It mostly works - memdisk