Syslinux - Nov 2003 - One more clue, maybe...

The stack dump message is white text on black background.  Right
above the stack dump message, still in yellow-on-blue from the PXELINUX
settings, is the text: 

Building the boot loader arguments 
Relocating the loader and the BTX 
Starting the BTX loader 

<change to white-on-black>  
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 

<stack dump>   

	Would that business of "arguments... Relocating... Starting..." tell
us anything?  
	BTW, you should be able to recreate this with the pxeboot.0 that I
sent you-- if it works, it'll produce a nice error message about a missing
kernel.  
	In the meantime, I'll try to find someone to converse with about
pxeboot... 
	-Chris     

-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:30 AM
To: McMahon, Chris
Cc: 'syslinux at zytor.com'; 'mike at flux.utah.edu'
Subject: Re: Format problem in previous mail. RE: Closer with pxeboot, but n
ot all there...

McMahon, Chris wrote:
> Hi again... 
> 	The text under "BTX loader..." should appear as a block where
each
> line is 56 characters long.  "BTX halted" is on its own line.  
> 	Apologies for my mailer... 
> -Chris   
> 		
Bother.  Unfortunately this dump doesn't make munch sense to me, for 
obvious reasons; I think we need to try to involve the pxeboot maintainer.

	-hpa

McMahon, Chris wrote:
> 
> 	The stack dump message is white text on black background.  Right
> above the stack dump message, still in yellow-on-blue from the PXELINUX
> settings, is the text: 
> 
> Building the boot loader arguments 
> Relocating the loader and the BTX 
> Starting the BTX loader 
> 
> <change to white-on-black>  
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 
> 
> <stack dump>   
> 
> 	Would that business of "arguments... Relocating... Starting..."
tell
> us anything?  
> 	BTW, you should be able to recreate this with the pxeboot.0 that I
> sent you-- if it works, it'll produce a nice error message about a
missing
> kernel.  
> 	In the meantime, I'll try to find someone to converse with about
> pxeboot... 
> 	-Chris     
> 
Those messages all come from pxeboot, and I simply have no way of 
knowing what they mean.

And yes, I can recreate it... I just don't know what to expect or how to 
debug it.

	-hpa

OK, and thanks! I'll pass on pxeboot information as soon as I have
some.  
-Chris 

-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:50 AM
To: McMahon, Chris
Cc: 'syslinux at zytor.com'; 'mike at flux.utah.edu'
Subject: Re: One more clue, maybe...

McMahon, Chris wrote:
> 
> 	The stack dump message is white text on black background.  Right
> above the stack dump message, still in yellow-on-blue from the PXELINUX
> settings, is the text: 
> 
> Building the boot loader arguments 
> Relocating the loader and the BTX 
> Starting the BTX loader 
> 
> <change to white-on-black>  
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 
> 
> <stack dump>   
> 
> 	Would that business of "arguments... Relocating... Starting..."
tell
> us anything?  
> 	BTW, you should be able to recreate this with the pxeboot.0 that I
> sent you-- if it works, it'll produce a nice error message about a
missing
> kernel.  
> 	In the meantime, I'll try to find someone to converse with about
> pxeboot... 
> 	-Chris     
> 
Those messages all come from pxeboot, and I simply have no way of 
knowing what they mean.

And yes, I can recreate it... I just don't know what to expect or how to 
debug it.

	-hpa