Bug 138257 - syslinux should disable gfxboot when running LOCALBOOT
Summary: syslinux should disable gfxboot when running LOCALBOOT
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-12-13 12:56 UTC by Colin Watson
Modified: 2005-12-14 11:21 UTC (History)
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disable gfxboot before starting boot from local disk (1.27 KB, patch)
2005-12-13 12:57 UTC, Colin Watson 		Details | Diff
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Description Colin Watson 2005-12-13 12:56:50 UTC 
I'm working with the SuSE syslinux/gfxboot code on Ubuntu. When booting from local hard disk using syslinux' LOCALBOOT statement, it was reported to me that syslinux fails to tear down gfxboot before chaining to the bootloader on the hard disk. I'll attach a syslinux patch in a moment that fixes this bug.
Comment 1 Colin Watson 2005-12-13 12:57:53 UTC 
Created attachment 60402 [details]
disable gfxboot before starting boot from local disk
Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-12-13 13:27:40 UTC 
Indeed. :-)
Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-12-13 14:06:18 UTC 
Colin, you're patching pxelinux as well. Does that mean you've gfxboot
running with pxelinux, too?
Comment 4 Colin Watson 2005-12-13 14:15:35 UTC 
No, I just patched it while I was there since the change was simultaneously obvious (local_boot starts the same way in pxelinux as it does in isolinux/ldlinux) and harmless (WITH_GFX isn't defined so it's a no-op). It would only actually be useful if somebody did patch pxelinux to handle gfxboot.
Comment 5 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-12-14 11:21:03 UTC 
Added your patches.