Hi, I have just joined the list. I am the original creator of Puppy Linux, now letting other guys take the reins, and I am working on a fork of Puppy called Quirky Linux, where I try various experimental ideas. Up until now, in Puppy and all offshoots, we have used syslinux 4.05 or older. Over the last few days I have been testing 6.03 (using the binary DEBs from Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn), and it works, except that the LSS boot image does not display. Everything is as we have been doing it for years. There is a syslinux.cfg, a boot message in file boot.msg and a LSS image boot.16 It is extremely simple, works fine with 4.05, no image in 6.03. I have hunted through the changelog and searched the mail-list, can't find anything about changes in the way LSS is handled. Could someone who is an expert with syslinux please take a look at this for me? I have uploaded the relevant files from my latest build of Quirky (6.2KB): distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/test/lss-broken.tar.gz ...as you will see, it couldn't get any simpler than that! Regards, Barry Kauler
> Hi, > I have just joined the list. > > I am the original creator of Puppy Linux, now letting other guys take > the reins, and I am working on a fork of Puppy called Quirky Linux, > where I try various experimental ideas. > > Up until now, in Puppy and all offshoots, we have used syslinux 4.05 or older. > > Over the last few days I have been testing 6.03 (using the binary DEBs > from Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn), and it works, except that the LSS > boot image does not display. > > Everything is as we have been doing it for years. There is a > syslinux.cfg, a boot message in file boot.msg and a LSS image boot.16 > > It is extremely simple, works fine with 4.05, no image in 6.03. > > I have hunted through the changelog and searched the mail-list, can't > find anything about changes in the way LSS is handled. > > Could someone who is an expert with syslinux please take a look at this for me? > > I have uploaded the relevant files from my latest build of Quirky (6.2KB): > > distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/test/lss-broken.tar.gz > > ...as you will see, it couldn't get any simpler than that! > > Regards, > Barry Kauler > _______________________________________________ > Syslinux mailing list > Submissions to Syslinux at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux >FWIW, Utopic uses 6.03-pre18, not the final release (although, the lss16 problem is present in both). About the lss16 issue, we all would welcome patches, really. Any volunteers? @Barry, see http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-October/022734.html TIA, Ady.
On 11/2/14, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:> > FWIW, Utopic uses 6.03-pre18, not the final release (although, the > lss16 problem is present in both). > > About the lss16 issue, we all would welcome patches, really. Any > volunteers? > > @Barry, see http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-October/022734.html >Ady, Thanks very much for the information. My memory got jogged, and I recalled the Puppy developers trying 5.x and encountering problems, including the LSS16 one, and deciding to stay with 4.0x: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=85619&start=30 The reason that I am keen to move up to 6.0x is I want to support UEFI for Quirky Linux (and to pass on the know how to the Puppy guys). So, I will very much appreciate if one of the syslinux developer guys can fix that LSS16 problem! Regards, Barry Kauler