Syslinux - Jun 2014 - Recent (6.02) PXELINUX on Soekris net4501

* Gene Cumm, 2014-06-10 :
> Did you see the SERIAL directive?  If this isn't enough, there may be
bugs
> in the modules or the libraries they use.
Yes, I'm aware of SERIAL, my config file has:

serial 0 19200 0
console 0

Thomas.

On Jun 10, 2014 4:59 PM, "Thomas Quinot" <syslinux at
thomas.cuivre.fr.eu.org>
wrote:
>
> * Gene Cumm, 2014-06-10 :
>
> > Did you see the SERIAL directive?  If this isn't enough, there may
be
bugs
> > in the modules or the libraries they use.
>
> Yes, I'm aware of SERIAL, my config file has:
>
> serial 0 19200 0
> console 0
>
> Thomas.
If 4.05 or 3.86 acted nicely, this would mean a bug.

--Gene

* Gene Cumm, 2014-06-10 :
> If 4.05 or 3.86 acted nicely, this would mean a bug.
OK, so, with unpatched official binaries:

3.86
----

pxelinux.0
  Loads fine, assumes terminal width 15, displays menu, but then freezes
  (I suspect it does not process any input from the serial port)

gpxelinux.0
  Displays:
PXE->EB: !PXE at 9E64:0060, entry point at 9E64:00F6
         UNDI code segment 9E64:1396, data segment 9B73:2F10 (621-639kB)
         UNDI device is PCI 00:12.0, type DIX+802.3
         582kB free base memory after PXE unload
then freezes.

4.05
----

Same

6.02
----

pxelinux.0
  Same except that menu does not display correctly.
gpxelinux.0
  Same
lpxelinux.0
  Dislays only banner in 15-column mode, then freezes (as indicated
  in my other message, inserting debugging traces indicates that
  this is in pxe_init_isr).

In all of these tests, pxelinux.cfg/default is as shown below.

Thomas.

serial 0 19200 0
console 0

ui menu.c32
menu title Utilities

label clonezilla
  menu label Clonezilla
  kernel images/clonezilla/live/vmlinuz
  append boot=live live-config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset \
  ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" \
  keyboard-layouts=us locales=en_US.UTF-8 \
  ocs_live_batch="no" vga=788 nosplash
fetch=tftp://tolbiac/PXE/images/clonezilla/live/filesyste.squashfs
  initrd PXE/images/clonezilla/live/initrd.img