similar to: MEMDISK issues and Dell OptiPlex and Latitude systems

A kind request for help please. MEMDISK is causing an issue with the Dell OptiPlex GX280 and GX620 platforms. Booting a PC-DOS/Ghost, disk image is successful (and proper) when using version 3.83. See results below: MEMDISK 3.83: Ramdisk at 0x07eeaa00, length 0x007bc000 command line: initrd=images/ghostclient/280_620/osbootc.img BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk MEMDISK: Image seems to have fractional end

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Alexander Perlis <aperlis at math.lsu.edu> wrote: > On 07/12/2014 02:24 PM, Gene Cumm wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Alexander Perlis <aperlis at math.lsu.edu> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 07/11/2014 09:39 PM, Gene Cumm wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> With everything else from

Good day again Daniel, So the first thing I did was to remove the >NUL for your XMSDSK line and put a PAUSE after it in AUTOEXEC.BAT. That way, I could see the error message: *** XMS RAMdisk v1.9I (FU - 08/98): XMS get free mem error. Then I noticed that if you run AUTOEXEC.BAT manually from the DOS CLI, XMSDSK actually succeeds! So that led to a new test: Duplicate the XMSDSK line. ...

Good day to you, too. No worries about the delay. I understand how busy everyone is with SYSLINUX. Gladly, the project continues to develop and improve. With that said, thanks for today's flurry of activity regarding my reported problem. Impressively, the debug version of MEMDISK that you had directed me to use appears to have done the trick. Results below. command line:

git://git.zytor.com/users/genec/syslinux.git Branch memdiskdbg-for-sha0 This starts with adding another check in two of the disk probes (by Shao; Thank you), expands the debug output, adds an additional check in the third probe and expands/reorders the debug output. At this time, it appears to resolve the MEMDISK issues that Jason Vasquez first noticed. The additional check in the third probe

Hello, On 23.07.2014 15:07, Ady wrote: >> Is there something I can test or help to diagnose? > > What about 6.03-pre18 (or newer)? > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ 6.03-pre18 is still slow: > 16:06:07.494125 IP dell.phahn.dev.49232 > xen12.phahn.dev.57501: UDP, length 4 > 16:06:07.494250 IP xen12.phahn.dev.57501 >

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

Hi, I've got a question regarding pxelinux: It seems that there is a buck in syslinux 3.86 (or still is in the current build) in the reset_pxe function. If I call "syslinux_local_boot(0)" (in a COM32 binary) the KeepPXE variable is always 1 which resets the PXE stack instead of unloading it: local_boot: push cs pop ds mov [LocalBootType],ax call vgaclearmode mov

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,

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 website

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?

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-4.06 allows for successful booting on the same system. Patrick On Tue,

On this list in early July 2014 I reported that on certain hardware one cannot chain from ipxe to lpxelinux.0 . My report at the time was about 6.03-pre17. I've repeated the tests with the release version of 6.03 and here is an updated report with more details. I boot to a USB stick with iPXE, which then is told to "dhcp" and then "chain http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/pxe.0".

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

Hello. We've been using a very old version of SYS-/PXELINUX, 3.36, going by the proven "if it works, don't break it" philosophy. We us it mostly to load floppy disk images to kick off OS installations. Unfortunately we've recently had some PXE menu problems (USB keyboard stopped working) for a certain Fujitsu PC model, and decided to upgrade to the latest version, i e 3.84.

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 non-existant floppy drive, at least it does say "to

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am having trouble with one Dell system and pxelinux: The keyboard does not properly work. The computer boots, I press F12 to select the boot device, then I select the network card. Up to that point the keyboard works fine. Then pxelinux is booted, and I use menu.c32 to display a menu (or vesamenu.c32 - same result). Now the keyboard does not

Hi all, I am trying to convert a data set of physician death codings (each individual's cause of death is coded by multiple physicians) from long to wide format, but the "reshape" function doesn't seem to work because it requires a "time" variable to identify the sequence among the repeated observations within individuals. My data set has no order, and different

Hello all. I am pretty new to this list but I have looked through the archives and did not see any reference to this problem. I have an MS-DOS boot floppy image that I am trying to load using MEMDISK. The disk is simply a boot floppy made using XPSP2. I have tried it on 4 different machines, all Dells. PowerEdge 2650 Server, Latitude D610 Notebook, Optiplex GX280 Desktop and Optiplex GX520

We have tried compiling the binaries our self and using the pre-compiled in the syslinux tar ball as well. It just locks up with the text we provided. The problem is booting from CD, booting from USB works. I suspect the problem is in isolinux.bin. The CD only fails on this one machine. It works on everything else we tried. 4.06 worked without any issue on this same machine. Parted Magic has been