Please try this version out if you are using floppies to boot, and
*especially* if you have observed either of the following two problems:
a) "booting with syslinux without -s takes forever"
b) "booting with syslinux without -s doesn't work, -s works"
Changes in 1.75:
* ALL: NASM 0.98.32 or later is now required to build NASM
from sources.
* SYSLINUX: put back in the workaround for the BIOS floppy
table. This seems to be a requirement for "extended"
floppy
formats to work correctly.
* SYSLINUX: No longer warn if one is trying to boot on a 286
or older. The above BIOS workaround no longer fits if the
requirement to use only 8086-compatible code in the early
boot is maintained. It made sense in 1994, but in 2002 a
286 or older is a museum object.
* SYSLINUX: Use a downright bizarre, stateful algorithm to try
to guess the maximum transfer size. I am *hoping* this will
cut down on the number of systems for which -s is required
to work at any acceptable speed.
As always, testing versions are at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
I might release newer versions... there is no need to test anything but
the latest unless the latest doesn't work.
-hpa
