[syslinux] Plop Boot Manager quit working with 5.10

Matt Fleming
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:10:11 -0000

On Fri, 28 Jun, at 07:32:30PM, Patrick Verner wrote:
> I have updated syslinux in Parted Magic's test version to the 5.10
release.
> With 4.06 I booted plop like this:
>
> LINUX /boot/plpbt/plpbt.bin
>
> Now it says /boot/plpbt/plpbt.bin... ok
> Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument
>
> Other "extras" like IPXE, HDT, memtest86+, chntpw, Super Grub
Disk, etc...
> all work with 5.10. Revert to 4.06 and plop works again.

Could you try Syslinux 5.11-pre5?

> Is this a problem with syslinux or plop?

For some reason, the plpbt.bin file didn't have a valid initrd_addr_max
field in its header, for some reason. Which caused the kernel loader to
barf.  Do you know why this field was zero? How did you build your
kernel image?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center