Syslinux - Feb 2010 - Boot from local disk broken with 3.85-pre5?

Hi all:

I was trying to test the new gpxelinux stuff in the release, but got
stuck when gpxelinux hung on the serial console with console
redirection enabled. (It looks like a bug and I lodged one with the
etherboot folks.)

However I also tested the pxelinux.0 to reinstall a host.  The initial
boot and system load went fine, but on the reboot after the load, it
network booted into the pxelinux.0 menu and I attempted to get it to
boot from disk. In the default pxelinux.cfg file I have:

# define a mode to boot from local disk
label disk
  menu label Boot local ^Disk
  localboot 0

when I pxebooted using the 3.85-pre5 pxelinux.0, I did get the prompt
as expected, but when I typed disk, it looks like pxelinux exited I got
an exit message from the pxe rom, and then the system hung.

When I power cycled the machine and pxebooted with the 3.84 release of
pxelinux.0 typing disk at the prompt got the same pxe bios exit
message, it then attempted to pxeboot from the second interface on
the system (which failed since there was no network cable hooked up)
and then it proceeded to boot from the hard drive as expected.

I was able to reproduce the hang on two consecutive boots with the
pxelinux.0 and .c32 modules from the 3.85-pre5 release.

Has anybody seen a similar problem, or are there any code changes that
could explain this?

-- 
				-- rouilj

John Rouillard       System Administrator
Renesys Corporation  603-244-9084 (cell)  603-643-9300 x 111

On 02/04/2010 02:33 PM, John Rouillard wrote:
> 
> Has anybody seen a similar problem, or are there any code changes that
> could explain this?
> 
There are substantial code changes in 3.85-pre5 related to this area (in
order to support gpxelinux.)

Could you give me as much details about your hardware as is possible?

	-hpa

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:20:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin
wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 02:33 PM, John Rouillard wrote:
> > 
> > Has anybody seen a similar problem, or are there any code changes that
> > could explain this?
> 
> There are substantial code changes in 3.85-pre5 related to this area (in
> order to support gpxelinux.)
> 
> Could you give me as much details about your hardware as is possible?
The system bios is AMIBIOS Version 08.00.14, Build Date:11/01/07, Bios
Ref 8.14.  The network card bios is:
                                                                               
  NVIDIA Boot Agent 244.0538

Hdt show summary reports:

 Manufacturer : AMD
 Product      : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216
 CPU Cores    : 2
 L2 Cache     : 1024K
 Features     : 0 Mhz : x86_64 64bit SMP HwVIRT
System
 Manufacturer : Supermicro
 Product Name : H8DMR-82
 Serial       : 1234567890
Bios
 Version      : 080014
 Release      : 11/01/2007
Memory Size   : 8192 MB (8388212 KB)
PCI
 NB Devices   : 23
PXE
 PCI device no: 11
 Manufacturer : nVidia Corporation
 Product      : MCP55 Ethernet
Kernel modules
  i2c_nforce2 # sata_nv # forcedeth # k8_edac # k8temp # 

What else would you like? I have hdt available to boot into, so if you
can give me some hdt commands to get the info you need I can run them.

-- 
				-- rouilj

John Rouillard       System Administrator
Renesys Corporation  603-244-9084 (cell)  603-643-9300 x 111