Thanks to debugging information from Thomas Mieslinger, I have root-caused the failure of chain.c32 in Syslinux 3.85. I have put out Syslinux 3.86-pre1 and Syslinux 4.00-pre33 which fix the problem. I expect to release a Syslinux 3.86 relatively shortly (ideally in the next two weeks), with bug fixes only. I would like to figure out if there are other bug fixes we can get in in reasonable time, but I will not wait for too long. -hpa
H. Peter Anvin wrote:> Thanks to debugging information from Thomas Mieslinger, I have > root-caused the failure of chain.c32 in Syslinux 3.85. I have put out > Syslinux 3.86-pre1 and Syslinux 4.00-pre33 which fix the problem. >Confirmed. Now I can use syslinux 3.86-pre1 to boot the local OS via chain.c32. Thanks!> I expect to release a Syslinux 3.86 relatively shortly (ideally in the > next two weeks), with bug fixes only. I would like to figure out if > there are other bug fixes we can get in in reasonable time, but I will > not wait for too long. > > -hpa > > _______________________________________________ > Syslinux mailing list > Submissions to Syslinux at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. >-- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A
Hi hpa,
thanks for providing a fix so fast.
This morning I checked the following Platforms:
these worked fine
HP DL360G2
HP DL360G3
HP DL360G5
Dell PE1950
IBM 8843 (known as HS20)
IBM 8853 (known as HS21)
These
HP DL360G4p
HP DL360G6
do not work. When starting them up with chain.c32 nothing, absolutly
nothing appears on the screen/serial port. Even the recompiled chain.c32
is silent.
So I started disk.c32 on them:
This ist the output from a DL360G4p
DISK 0x80:
C/H/S: 255 heads, 1024 cylinders
32 sectors/track, 1 drives
EDD: ebios=1, EDD version: 30
255 heads, 8716 cylinders
71122560 sectors, 512 bytes/sector, 32 sectors/track
Host bus: PCIXRAID , Interface type: RAID
and this from a DL360G6
DISK 0x80:
C/H/S: 255 heads, 1024 cylinders
32 sectors/track, 1 drives
EDD: ebios=1, EDD version: 30
255 heads, 35132 cylinders
286677120 sectors, 512 bytes/sector, 32 sectors/track
Host bus: PCIXRAID , Interface type: RAID
Please find attached the sysdump files.
Now going to check 4.00 stuff
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Hi hpa,
thanks for providing a fix so fast.
This morning I checked the following Platforms:
these worked fine
HP DL360G2
HP DL360G3
HP DL360G5
Dell PE1950
IBM 8843 (known as HS20)
IBM 8853 (known as HS21)
These
HP DL360G4p
HP DL360G6
do not work. When starting them up with chain.c32 nothing, absolutly
nothing appears on the screen/serial port. Even the recompiled chain.c32
is silent.
So I started disk.c32 on them:
This ist the output from a DL360G4p
DISK 0x80:
C/H/S: 255 heads, 1024 cylinders
32 sectors/track, 1 drives
EDD: ebios=1, EDD version: 30
255 heads, 8716 cylinders
71122560 sectors, 512 bytes/sector, 32 sectors/track
Host bus: PCIXRAID , Interface type: RAID
and this from a DL360G6
DISK 0x80:
C/H/S: 255 heads, 1024 cylinders
32 sectors/track, 1 drives
EDD: ebios=1, EDD version: 30
255 heads, 35132 cylinders
286677120 sectors, 512 bytes/sector, 32 sectors/track
Host bus: PCIXRAID , Interface type: RAID
regards Thomas
On 03/08/2010 01:48 AM, Thomas Mieslinger wrote:> > These > > HP DL360G4p > HP DL360G6 > > do not work. When starting them up with chain.c32 nothing, absolutly > nothing appears on the screen/serial port. Even the recompiled chain.c32 > is silent. >Have these *ever* worked, with any version of Syslinux? Also, how do you run them? Just "chain.c32 hd0"? -hpa