[ipxe-devel] iPXE menu hangs on Samsung notebook

[Christian Hesse]

Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Mon, 2014/01/27 12:17:
> 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 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.
> 
> Ok, finally found the time.
> With "DEBUG=script" last line in syslog is:
> 
> ipxe: [0204] $ # fall back to menu if this fails
> 
> After the corresponding comment the configuration file contains:
> 
> :start
> menu iPXE: ${manufacturer} ${product} (${ip} / ${mac})
> 
> Anything more I can try?

Last commit (c159512, [bios] Fix screen clearing on even more buggy BIOSes)
also fixes my issue. Thanks a lot!

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