Hi Peter,
I have tested version 3.35 memdisk with ms-dos images via usb keys on
IBM Laptops - still the same result - hangs after saying "Starting
MS-DOS...". Dell Laptops work fine with the same setup. However, the
grub4dos alternative works fine with the IBM Laptops.
IBM Laptops affected: T23, T30, T40/p, T41/p, T42/p, T43/p, X40,
X60/s, and T60/p
Quinn
On 1/29/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
wrote:> Hi everyone,
>
> SYSLINUX 3.35 is out, come and get it :) The main new things are
> subdirectory support in SYSLINUX (FAT) and EDD support in MEMDISK.
> Special thanks to Tomas M. of slax.org for sponsoring the subdirectory
> support in SYSLINUX.
>
> I have also pushed out 3.40-pre4, which is simply the 3.35 changes
> merged into the 3.40 branch.
>
> 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.
>
> Begin3
> Title: syslinux
> Version: 3.31
> Entered-date: 2007-01-28
>
> Description: SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
> operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3
> filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers
> using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. The FAT
> filesystem version can be installed from DOS, NT, or
> Linux.
>
> It includes a sophisticated API for add-on
"COM32"
> modules, including a significant subset of the
> standard C library.
>
> It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy
> operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE
> or CD-ROM.
>
> Keywords: syslinux pxelinux isolinux extlinux msdos boot loader
> floppy install network ext2 ext3 pxe iso9660 cdfs
> memdisk com32
> Author: hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
> Maintained-by: hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
> Primary-site: ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
> 1833237 syslinux-3.35.tar.gz
> 2081378 syslinux-3.35.zip
> Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
> Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.38 or
> later required to build from source.
> Copying-policy: GPL
> End
>
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