Hello...
With syslinux pre7, I am consistently getting what looks like a
stack dump out of the FreeBSD loader.
I have seen this behavior from pxeboot before. Maybe once out of
every fifty or so runs of pxeboot, I would see an error message like the one
below, but it was both rare and inconsistent. Now I am getting this message
every time pxelinux invokes pxeboot:
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
int=0000000d err=000000b8 efl=00010246 eip=0000e306
eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00084fa0
esi=00000000 edi=00000000 ebp=00083ff8 esp=00083ff0
cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033
cs:eip=07 80 20 00 07 80 20 00-07 80 20 00 07 80 20 00
ss:esp=b8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 16 00 00 00
BTX halted
The message is consistent-- that is, pxeboot displays the same
message every time it is invoked from pxelinux.
I hope this helps, let me know if there's anything more I can tell
you.
-Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:11 PM
To: McMahon, Chris
Cc: 'syslinux at zytor.com'; 'mike at flux.utah.edu'
Subject: Re: More info about split-second message. RE: [syslinux] run
FreeBSD "pxeboot" from pxelinux.0?
McMahon, Chris wrote:> Hello...
> In the split-second before the reboot, I can see that the pxeboot.0
> process is indeed started-- pxeboot gets out just over 2 lines of text
> before the reboot occurs.
> So it's not a "ready" message.
> The text in question is (without *'s):
> ******************************************
> PXE Loader 1.00
>
> Building the boot loader arguments
> Relocating the loader and the BTX
> *******************************************
>
> and it's gone.
> BTW, I altered the display colors (yellow on blue) and was able to
> read the split-second message, although I had to re-run a couple of times.
> (nice feature, those colors.)
> I hope that helps...
> -Chris
>
Okay... that's a useful piece of info.
-hpa
