Comment 287 for bug 930447

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sudodus (nio-wiklund) wrote :

Now it is time for me to say thank you :-)

First of all, *I want to thank everybody contributing* to solving this bug, or complex of bugs, concerning Pentium M and Celeron M CPUs and new Ubuntu based kernels.

Then I want to mention roland aus köln (devzero-c), who continued pushing this issue when we had given up (either completely or like me, resorting to work-arounds).

And I want to thank Chris Bainbridge, who was able to do the actual bug-fixes that made the ship turn around. I don't know if you are a developer or a very skilled user, but you made a great difference.

Finally I want to thank you Chris for sharing the link to instructions, that actually got me over the threshold to build a custom syslinux bootable system. I'm working right now on a debian system, that should be able to install from a CD/DVD or USB drive to very different systems (including very old and limited systems) by flashing compressed image files (img.xz files) or iso files and growing the file system when there is extra space available.

I show the link again for everybody else, who might be interested. It works for me with a couple of minor tweaks, the main one that I needed to import a gpg key separately.

Best regards
sudodus alias Nio

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Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge) wrote on 2014-03-03: #279

lkml: "grub is jumping to the 32-bit entry point and skipping the entire real mode setup code. Bad grub."

You don't need to build a syslinux bootable iso. You can boot the kernel from Grub in 16-bit mode by using the linux16 command http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/linux16.html and initrd16 https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/initrd16.html

According to the discussion on LKML, linux16 is now the default on Fedora, and should be used by other distributions.

(If you still want to build a custom syslinux bootable system, just for fun, see the instructions at http://willhaley.com/blog/create-a-custom-debian-live-environment/ - it's about 25 lines of code in total, and not difficult to follow)
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