Frans Pop wrote: > Confirmed. Turns out this is related to the XEN patches that are included > in Debian's 2.6.25 kernel (and have been accepted upstream for 2.6.26). > > I have compiled and successfully booted a 486 kernel from the Debian > source package with the following patches [1] disabled: > #+ features/all/xen-elf-fromat-crompessed-images.patch > #+ features/all/xen-image-header.patch > #+ features/all/xen-crc32-checksum-kernel-image.patch > #+ features/all/xen-boot-protocol.patch > #+ features/all/xen-module-autoloading.patch > > I mainly suspect the first of that set, but have not confirmed that. I'll > try to narrow it down to a specific patch by bisecting the patch series > using upstream 2.6.26. What I don't understand is why this would only affect the floppy image. Netboot and cdrom also use syslinux variants to load the same upxd kernel image, and it works there. -- see shy jo
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