Syslinux - Oct 2002 - com32

Hi,
I am trying to understand how to use the COM32 mechanism in syslinux 
2.00pre8.
It seems very interesting even though the comboot.doc docs are very 
difficult to
read for me.

Here is my problem: I gave a look to the hello.c example in the sample 
dir and
I could not find anywhere what to do with the hello.c32 file produced 
through the
Makefile.
I tried putting it in a 2.00pre8 syslinux boot floppy and calling it 
from syslinux.cfg
just replacing the line "display message.txt" with the line
"hello.c32"
but it did
not work :-(

Thanks,
 Roberto De Leo

Roberto De Leo wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to understand how to use the COM32 mechanism in syslinux
> 2.00pre8.
> It seems very interesting even though the comboot.doc docs are very
> difficult to
> read for me.
> 
> Here is my problem: I gave a look to the hello.c example in the sample
> dir and
> I could not find anywhere what to do with the hello.c32 file produced
> through the
> Makefile.
> I tried putting it in a 2.00pre8 syslinux boot floppy and calling it
> from syslinux.cfg
> just replacing the line "display message.txt" with the line
"hello.c32"
> but it did
> not work :-(
> 
Run it like you would a kernel, for example:

LABEL hello
	KERNEL hello.c32

... or just type "hello.c32" on the command line.

I actually have a version of the newlib C library ported to using COM32,
although it still needs work it's looking very promising.  It should
give a full 32-bit C development environment when done.

	-hpa