Syslinux - Jan 2005 - Version 3.02 floppy boot hangs.

Hello,

  When I upgrade syslinux from 2.13 to 3.02. my linux floppy doesn't
  boot anymore.

  steps:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=fdimg bs=18k count=160
  mkdosfs fdimg
  syslinux fdimg
  mount -o loop fdimg /mnt
  cp files/* /mnt/
  umount /mnt

  then use memdisk load fdimg

  the files includes: vmlinuz initrd syslinux.cfg message.txt f1.txt ...

  it only prompts 1 line:
  SYSLINUX 3.02 2005-01-04 Copyright ...
  then hangs.

  But version 2.13 works very well.

  there is the syslinux.cfg
---------------------------------------
DEFAULT 1
DISPLAY message.txt
PROMPT 1 
TIMEOUT 300
F1 message.txt
F2 f2.txt
F3 f3.txt
F4 f4.txt
F5 f5.txt

LABEL 1
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0
vga=791
            
LABEL 2
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0
vga=791 noconf freecd

LABEL 3
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0
vga=771 noconf freecd runfloppy
            
LABEL 4
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0

LABEL 5
    KERNEL vmlinuz
    APPEND initrd=initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw ramdisk_size=5000 root=/dev/ram0
freecd pxeserver
            
  
-- 
Best regards,
 Merlin                            mailto:softlib at turbolinux.com.cn

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Merlin wrote:
> 
> HPA> Could you send me a copy of this image?
> Please see attached file.
> Thanks!
Ah, thanks.  That's exactly what I needed.  There is a bug relating to 
too large directories in SYSLINUX; I have attached a patch.

Incidentally, why are you using MEMDISK and a disk image from a CD-ROM 
when you're using it to boot a kernel?  Why not use ISOLINUX?

Anyway, another workaround is to turn off vfat, this will make the 
directory smaller; as long as you have vfat off it should be able to 
handle at least 15 files in the root directory.

This is clearly a very serious bug which needs to be fixed.  I'm a bit 
torn between trying to get 3.10 out quicker, release a 3.03, or release 
a "3.05" (meaning halfway between 3.00 and 3.10 :) which would
basically
be 3.10-pre1 plus this patch (plus some more testing, presumably.)

Do people have any opinions?

	-hpa
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