[syslinux] Plop Boot Manager quit working with 5.10

Patrick Verner
Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:52:43 -0000

Thanks for the tips Ady. I have tried about everything I could think of +
your ideas and nothing works. I'm just going to downgrade to 4.06 and check
back in 6 months.

Patrick

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> 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.
> >
> > Is this a problem with syslinux or plop?
> >
>
> Testing under VBox 4.2.14, Syslinux 6.01-pre5, BIOS, ISOLINUX,
> menu.c32:
>
> LABEL plop_test
> MENU LABEL PLoP Boot Manager V5.0.15-TEST
> COM32 linux.c32
> APPEND plpbt_test.bin
>
> fails with:
> syslinux_boot_linux() failed: Error 22
> linux.c32 failed: Boot aborted!
>
> and
>
> LABEL plop
> MENU LABEL PLoP Boot Manager V5.0.14
> COM32 linux.c32
> APPEND memdisk initrd=plpbt.img.gz
>
> successfully boots PLoP.
>
> Note the different PLoP versions (stable / test), and that one
> Syslinux entry uses the PLoP kernel and the other uses the image with
> memdisk.
>
> I have not tried without using linux.c32.
>
> I have not actually tried to go on with additional booting steps to
> boot something else, from inside PLoP itself.
>
> It might be worth testing Syslinux 5.11-preN too (instead of 5.10)
> with different versions of PLoP, and with and without MEMDISK.
>
> Regards,
> Ady.
>
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