similar to: Dell Optiplex GX620 keyboard problem

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,

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

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

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,

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,

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

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Patrick Verner <distrozilla at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Thanks. I'm assuming by this you mean it always ends with the cursor 1 space away from "ETCD", regardless the binaries tested. I'd

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Patrick Verner <distrozilla at gmail.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

>>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: SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 2012-10-23 boot: meminfo.c32 INT 15h = f000:f859 DOS RAM: 639K (0x9fc00) INT 12h: 639K (0x9fc00) INT 15 88: 0xfc00 (64512K) INT 15 E801: 0x3c00 (15360K) 0xbee8 (3127808K) 0

> 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 >

On 7/7/2013 21:25, Patrick Verner wrote: > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Shao Miller <sha0.miller at gmail.com > <mailto:sha0.miller at gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 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 >

On 7/7/2013 23:37, Patrick Verner wrote: > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Shao Miller <sha0.miller at gmail.com > <mailto:sha0.miller at gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 7/7/2013 21:25, Patrick Verner wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Shao Miller > <sha0.miller at gmail.com <mailto:sha0.miller at gmail.com> >

-----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

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?

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Patrick Verner <distrozilla at gmail.com> wrote: > 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

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

Hello all. Again I call upon the greats of this mailing list to help me with an issue related to MEMDISK - notably when paired with various Dell OptiPlex and Latitude systems. The issue presented itself sometime ago and I best dealt with it by remaining with version 3.83 of the SYSLINUX package. But valuing the improved changes fostered by newer versions, I would prefer to move forward with

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 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

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