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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:16:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4856ADF1.3040707@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080616175833.GA54900@atlantis.8hz.com>

Sean Young wrote:
> 
> The thinking was that syslinux sets the boot parameters which are being read 
> in head_32.S. I've used syslinux 3.53 but have just moved to 3.63.
> 
> That was the theory at least. I'm not sure what's going on now. I'll spend
> some more time on this.
> 

Most of the boot parameters actually come from the real-mode boot code 
(arch/x86/boot).  A few of them come from the bootloader.

With a version of Syslinux that recent there shouldn't be any issues, 
especially since Syslinux is, for somewhat obvious reasons, my reference 
bootloader.  You may want to experiment with using the optional 
linux.c32 module just to see if it changes the behaviour:

boot: linux.c32 kernel options...

Or, in the configuration file:

label blah
	kernel linux.c32
	append kernel options...

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-16 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-16 12:11 Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500 Sean Young
2008-06-16 13:27 ` Rusty Russell
2008-06-16 13:37   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-16 16:19     ` Sean Young
2008-06-16 17:06       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-16 17:58         ` Sean Young
2008-06-16 18:16           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-06-16 17:06       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-16 17:07       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-30 21:43       ` Sean Young
2008-06-30 21:52         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-30 22:04           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-30 22:14             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-30 22:36               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-30 22:45                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-30 22:31             ` Sean Young
2008-06-30 22:34             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-30 22:42               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-01 19:59                 ` Sean Young
2008-07-01 20:20                   ` Sean Young
2008-07-01 20:24                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 20:25                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-15 22:23                     ` Sean Young
2008-07-15 22:30                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-01 20:22                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 20:23                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-01 20:29                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-01 20:39                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-06 13:21                       ` Pavel Machek
2008-06-30 22:09           ` Sean Young
2008-07-06  2:41             ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-06  3:07               ` H. Peter Anvin

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