Recently, I decided to pull out a new model laptop for testing related to my job at work. Dell Latitiude E6400, BIOS A14. Normally I have it set to boot CD, USB, Net, then HDD and noticed that with PXELINUX-4.02 and 'LOCALBOOT 0', it hung on me before leaving the PXE stack. I then tried 3.86 and it worked. 4.00 and 4.01 both hung when I tested them as well. Changing to 'LOCALBOOT -1' or using 'chain.c32 hd0' both resolved this issue. At this time, I'm just trying to post to give people an FYI in case they run into a similar situation and to say that I'm going to be trying to hunt for where/how things are hanging. I still have to get another test environment configured to obtain the exact displayed messages. -- -Gene
H. Peter Anvin
2010-Aug-08 00:36 UTC
[syslinux] PXELINUX LocalBoot 0 fail; hunting for bug
On 08/07/2010 10:45 AM, Gene Cumm wrote:> Recently, I decided to pull out a new model laptop for testing related > to my job at work. Dell Latitiude E6400, BIOS A14. Normally I have > it set to boot CD, USB, Net, then HDD and noticed that with > PXELINUX-4.02 and 'LOCALBOOT 0', it hung on me before leaving the PXE > stack. I then tried 3.86 and it worked. 4.00 and 4.01 both hung when > I tested them as well. Changing to 'LOCALBOOT -1' or using 'chain.c32 > hd0' both resolved this issue. > > At this time, I'm just trying to post to give people an FYI in case > they run into a similar situation and to say that I'm going to be > trying to hunt for where/how things are hanging. > > I still have to get another test environment configured to obtain the > exact displayed messages. >It's always worth trying a "git bisect" if you can. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.