On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:> But, in Syslinux 4.06, there is linux.c32, which is a sort of > introduction to Syslinux 5.xx (please allow me to be not strictly > accurate in this sentence in this context). > > Booting with any variant of Syslinux 4.06, but using linux.c32, > memtest would fail, which indicated some kind of problem related to > the status of Syslinux 5.xx at the time v4.06 was released.PXELINUX 4.06 with Memtest86-4.20 and Memtest86+-4.20 binaries (renamed) using LINUX directly works. Using linux.c32: "syslinux_boot_linux() failed: Error 0" PXELINUX 5.10, 5.11-pre3, 6.01-pre5 with binaries LINUX directly: "Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument" -- -Gene
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> But, in Syslinux 4.06, there is linux.c32, which is a sort of >> introduction to Syslinux 5.xx (please allow me to be not strictly >> accurate in this sentence in this context). >> >> Booting with any variant of Syslinux 4.06, but using linux.c32, >> memtest would fail, which indicated some kind of problem related to >> the status of Syslinux 5.xx at the time v4.06 was released. > > > PXELINUX 4.06 with Memtest86-4.20 and Memtest86+-4.20 binaries > (renamed) using LINUX directly works. Using linux.c32: > "syslinux_boot_linux() failed: Error 0" > > PXELINUX 5.10, 5.11-pre3, 6.01-pre5 with binaries LINUX directly: > "Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument"N?meth P?ter : Would you happen to have a link for the Memtest86+ binaries that you attempted to use with PXELINUX? -- -Gene
On 06/28/2013 04:07 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> But, in Syslinux 4.06, there is linux.c32, which is a sort of >>> introduction to Syslinux 5.xx (please allow me to be not strictly >>> accurate in this sentence in this context). >>> >>> Booting with any variant of Syslinux 4.06, but using linux.c32, >>> memtest would fail, which indicated some kind of problem related to >>> the status of Syslinux 5.xx at the time v4.06 was released. >> >> >> PXELINUX 4.06 with Memtest86-4.20 and Memtest86+-4.20 binaries >> (renamed) using LINUX directly works. Using linux.c32: >> "syslinux_boot_linux() failed: Error 0" >> >> PXELINUX 5.10, 5.11-pre3, 6.01-pre5 with binaries LINUX directly: >> "Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument" > > N?meth P?ter : > Would you happen to have a link for the Memtest86+ binaries that you > attempted to use with PXELINUX? >It is presumably the stock memtest-86+ 4.20 binaries. As I wrote elsewhere in the thread, the problem is understood. -hpa