Syslinux - Oct 2013 - syslinux/isolinux 6.2 "Error: Couldn't read the first disk sector"

After switching to version 6.2, I am having a problem to use chain.c32 
to boot a local disk.
My settings:
=====================label local
   MENU LABEL Local operating system in hard drive
   kernel chain.c32
   append hd0
=====================It gave me "Error: Couldn't read the first disk
sector"

If I change the settings as
=====================label local
   MENU LABEL Local operating system in hard drive
   localboot 0
=====================After the boot menu, it showed:
"Booting from local disk..."
Then I got the error message:
"Boot failed: press a key to retry"

I am sure the hard drive could boot since if I remove the live CD it can 
successfully boot into my Linux box.
The live CD I created was put here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.16.2-9/gparted-live-0.16.2-9-i686-pae.iso/download
I have tested this on VMWare WS 10 and real machine, like Acer Aspire 
One. All have the same issue.
BTW, I have no problem when the live CD was using syslinux/isolinux 
5.10, i.e.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.16.2-6/gparted-live-0.16.2-6-i686-pae.iso/download

Is this a bug or something new about config which I do not know?
Thanks.

Steven.
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My bad, I meant version 6.02, not 6.2

Steven.

On 10/29/2013 11:28 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
> After switching to version 6.2, I am having a problem to use chain.c32
> to boot a local disk.
> My settings:
> =====================> label local
>   MENU LABEL Local operating system in hard drive
>   kernel chain.c32
>   append hd0
> =====================> It gave me "Error: Couldn't read the
first disk sector"
> 
> If I change the settings as
> =====================> label local
>   MENU LABEL Local operating system in hard drive
>   localboot 0
> =====================> After the boot menu, it showed:
> "Booting from local disk..."
> Then I got the error message:
> "Boot failed: press a key to retry"
> 
> I am sure the hard drive could boot since if I remove the live CD it can
> successfully boot into my Linux box.
> The live CD I created was put here:
>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.16.2-9/gparted-live-0.16.2-9-i686-pae.iso/download
> 
> I have tested this on VMWare WS 10 and real machine, like Acer Aspire
> One. All have the same issue.
> BTW, I have no problem when the live CD was using syslinux/isolinux
> 5.10, i.e.
>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.16.2-6/gparted-live-0.16.2-6-i686-pae.iso/download
> 
> 
> Is this a bug or something new about config which I do not know?
> Thanks.
> 
> Steven.
-- 
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: 4096R/47CF935C
Fingerprint: 0240 1FEB 695D 7112 62F0  8796 11C1 12DA 47CF 935C

On 29 October 2013 11:39, Steven Shiau <steven at nchc.org.tw> wrote:
> My bad, I meant version 6.02, not 6.2
>
> Steven.
>
> On 10/29/2013 11:28 AM, Steven Shiau wrote:
> > After switching to version 6.2, I am having a problem to use chain.c32
> > to boot a local disk.
> > My settings:
> > =====================> > label local
> >   MENU LABEL Local operating system in hard drive
> >   kernel chain.c32
> >   append hd0
> > =====================> > It gave me "Error: Couldn't
read the first disk sector"
> >
> > If I change the settings as
> > =====================> > label local
> >   MENU LABEL Local operating system in hard drive
> >   localboot 0
> > =====================> > After the boot menu, it showed:
> > "Booting from local disk..."
> > Then I got the error message:
> > "Boot failed: press a key to retry"
> >
> > I am sure the hard drive could boot since if I remove the live CD it
can
> > successfully boot into my Linux box.
> > The live CD I created was put here:
> >
>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.16.2-9/gparted-live-0.16.2-9-i686-pae.iso/download
> >
> > I have tested this on VMWare WS 10 and real machine, like Acer Aspire
> > One. All have the same issue.
> > BTW, I have no problem when the live CD was using syslinux/isolinux
> > 5.10, i.e.
> >
>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.16.2-6/gparted-live-0.16.2-6-i686-pae.iso/download
> >
> >
> > Is this a bug or something new about config which I do not know?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Steven.
>
This seems to have been fixed by 2 commits after 6.02 tag
http://git.zytor.com/?p=syslinux/syslinux.git;a=commit;h=4ac63b5ac412d54462e292daf65a309775bc0448
 and
http://git.zytor.com/?p=syslinux/syslinux.git;a=commit;h=4c3c85630e83ed4522444c707abea6bc3db8a40b
.
For some reason
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git/log/?h=firmware is
not updated to match
http://git.zytor.com/?p=syslinux/syslinux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/firmware
 .

With Best Regards,

Keshav