Syslinux - Jan 2007 - SYSLINUX 3.35-pre5 released -- release candidate

Hi all,

I have released SYSLINUX 3.35-pre5 to the Testing directory; this is a 
release candidate and I intend to release this as 3.35 early next week 
unless I hear of any showstopper bugs, so please, pretty please, try it out.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/

kernel.org has been overloaded lately, so it might take a while to show up.

Changes in 3.35:
         * MEMDISK: New "safeint" mode.
         * MEMDISK: Be more compliant with the PnP BIOS spec.
         * MEMDISK: Turn on EDD support by default.
         * MEMDISK: Try to work on some machines on which it would not
           work when there was no floppy drive in the system.
         * Simple menu system: fix serial console support (broken in
           3.30).
         * SYSLINUX: Support subdirectories.  Like ISOLINUX, the
           "current directory" is the directory in which syslinux.cfg
           is found; this is searched for in the sequence
           /boot/syslinux, /syslinux, /.  As a side benefit, label names
           like "linux-2.6.18" and "linux-2.6.19" are now
supported.

           To install ldlinux.sys in a subdirectory, pass the -d
           directory option to the SYSLINUX installer.

           This work was sponsored by slax.org (thanks, Tomas!)
         * New API call: read disk.
         * Invoke ONERROR on initrd load failure.

	-hpa

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>          * MEMDISK: Try to work on some machines on which it would not
>            work when there was no floppy drive in the system.
>   
Great work!

This fixed the problem on three of my machines, one of them being a 
customers. You just saved my day!
While I could have worked around the problem, being able to just update 
pxelinux.0 and memdisk was
faster and more efficient.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

-Andrew

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Changes in 3.35:
I just noticed that pxelinux has a copyright date ending in 2005. 
shouldn't that be updated to 2007?

-Andrew

Hello hpa,

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> [20070126
06:34]:
> I have released SYSLINUX 3.35-pre5 to the Testing directory; this is a 
> release candidate and I intend to release this as 3.35 early next week 
> unless I hear of any showstopper bugs, so please, pretty please, try it
out.
I'm truly happy with it :]

Thanks a lot!

  Andreas

P.S: do you plan on doing the imminent tftp-hpa release as well? :)

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Andreas Kotes wrote:
> 
> P.S: do you plan on doing the imminent tftp-hpa release as well? :)
> 
Probably makes sense, since the set of changes in git is non-empty.

	-hpa