[ipxe-devel] iPXE menu hangs on Samsung notebook

[Christian Hesse]

Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> on Thu, 2014/01/16 16:24:
> On 16/01/14 15:50, Christian Hesse wrote:
> >> Can you try adding some logging (serial, syslog, whatever works for you)
> >> and some appropriate DEBUG= options (maybe DEBUG=script) to find out
> >> exactly where it's locking up?
> >
> > I built a debug version, but could not get any useful information so far.
> > This system does not have a serial port and capturing video output with a
> > mobile phone just brings a lot of garbage. It flashes by just too fast.
> >
> > I noticed the system now does not hang but resets hard. Not sure if this
> > is caused by any changes in iPXE... I am pretty sure it hung some time
> > ago.

I was right. It gangs with my packaged version, but resets which what I built
manually - even the same version. I have to look into that.

> > I will investigate further. Can I send output to netcat or the like?
> 
> If you enable CONSOLE_SYSLOG, then you can send all output to a remote 
> syslog server.

I will have to set this up. Hope to have the time at the end of the week.
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