Patrick J. LoPresti
2003-Sep-30 20:14 UTC
[syslinux] MEMDISK without floppy drive is fixed in 2.07
I apologize for the long delay in testing this. I can only reproduce the problem on fancy new laptops, and those do not stay in my hands for very long. As you may recall, certain floppyless laptops have a BIOS bug which prevented them from working with MEMDISK. Around a month ago, Robert Wruck contributed workaround patches, and hpa included a modified version of them in 2.07-pre1. He asked for testing, and that was the last message on the thread that I saw. I have just now confirmed that a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop exhibits the problem with 2.06 but not with 2.07-pre5. So the fix/workaround looks good. Thank you, Robert and Peter! - Pat
H. Peter Anvin
2003-Oct-05 01:43 UTC
[syslinux] MEMDISK without floppy drive is fixed in 2.07
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:> I apologize for the long delay in testing this. I can only reproduce > the problem on fancy new laptops, and those do not stay in my hands > for very long. > > As you may recall, certain floppyless laptops have a BIOS bug which > prevented them from working with MEMDISK. Around a month ago, Robert > Wruck contributed workaround patches, and hpa included a modified > version of them in 2.07-pre1. > > He asked for testing, and that was the last message on the thread that > I saw. > > I have just now confirmed that a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop exhibits > the problem with 2.06 but not with 2.07-pre5. So the fix/workaround > looks good. Thank you, Robert and Peter! >OK everyone... please refresh my memory... is there anything else in particular that we're waiting for in 2.07 (not counting the API read bug, which I am aware of and will try to find time to tackle at some point... unfortunately it looks like I have to spend most of my spare time for the next several months hunting for a new place to live :( :( :(... -hpa