HDT - Nov 2009 - HDT 0.3.6-pre2 is out !

The -pre2 version of HDT 0.3.6 is out.

Gert was a great source of motivation for making that -pre2.
He found many bugs and gave nice ideas.
Thanks Gert for your time and your _many_ tests.

This release will be more or less what will be included in the incoming 
syslinux 3.84.

Since -pre1, here come the Changelog

     * Reporting CPU L1 & L2 cache
     * Report "Hw.Virt" in cpu detection if the cpu supports vmx or
svm
     * Fixing memory detection under the cli mode
     * Adding cpu core detection
     * Adding more cpu flags
     * Display an error message if no disk is present while using the 
disk mode.
     * Clearing screen didn't reset the cursor position to 0x0
     * User can switch from vesa to text mode via "vesa>enable" and
"vesa>disable"
     * Adding a simple menu for the provided floppy & iso images
     * Adding "novesa" command for future use
     * Reworking CLI's history mode to avoid corruption
     * The installed memory size is now detected even if no dmi table is 
present
     * Memory menu is shown even if no memory bank got detected
     * Fixing grub2 detection
     * User can override the background image in vesa mode via the 
"vesa=<file>" option

This release can be download on the hdt 0.3.6 home page
(http://www.hdt-project.org/attachment/wiki/hdt-0.3.6/) or using this links:
http://www.hdt-project.org/raw-attachment/wiki/hdt-0.3.6/hdt_0_3_6_pre2.c32
http://www.hdt-project.org/raw-attachment/wiki/hdt-0.3.6/hdt-0.3.6-pre2.iso
http://www.hdt-project.org/raw-attachment/wiki/hdt-0.3.6/hdt-0.3.6-pre2.img
http://www.hdt-project.org/raw-attachment/wiki/hdt-0.3.6/hdt-0.3.6-pre2.img.gz

Happy testing,
Erwan

memtest is missing from the img file. It probably should be in there because
it's a command called from Memory --> Run Test.

http://www.memtest.org/

It's GPL, so it shouldn't be an issue. Just rename memtest86+-4.00.bin
to memtest. Also gzip the img with the -9 flag. :)

Patrick

--- On Fri, 11/27/09, Erwan <erwan at seanodes.com> wrote:
> From: Erwan <erwan at seanodes.com>
> Subject: [syslinux] HDT 0.3.6-pre2 is out !
> To: hdt at zytor.com, "For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa"
<syslinux at zytor.com>
> Date: Friday, November 27, 2009, 4:37 PM
> The -pre2 version of HDT 0.3.6 is
> out.
> 
> Gert was a great source of motivation for making that
> -pre2.
> He found many bugs and gave nice ideas.
> Thanks Gert for your time and your _many_ tests.
> 
> This release will be more or less what will be included in
> the incoming syslinux 3.84.
> 
> Since -pre1, here come the Changelog
> 
> ? ? * Reporting CPU L1 & L2 cache
> ? ? * Report "Hw.Virt" in cpu detection if the
> cpu supports vmx or svm
> ? ? * Fixing memory detection under the cli mode
> ? ? * Adding cpu core detection
> ? ? * Adding more cpu flags
> ? ? * Display an error message if no disk is
> present while using the disk mode.
> ? ? * Clearing screen didn't reset the cursor
> position to 0x0
> ? ? * User can switch from vesa to text mode via
> "vesa>enable" and "vesa>disable"
> ? ? * Adding a simple menu for the provided
> floppy & iso images
> ? ? * Adding "novesa" command for future use
> ? ? * Reworking CLI's history mode to avoid
> corruption
> ? ? * The installed memory size is now detected
> even if no dmi table is present
> ? ? * Memory menu is shown even if no memory bank
> got detected
> ? ? * Fixing grub2 detection
> ? ? * User can override the background image in
> vesa mode via the "vesa=<file>" option
> 
> This release can be download on the hdt 0.3.6 home page
> (http://www.hdt-project.org/attachment/wiki/hdt-0.3.6/)
> or using this links:
> http://www.hdt-project.org/raw-attachment/wiki/hdt-0.3.6/hdt_0_3_6_pre2.c32
> http://www.hdt-project.org/raw-attachment/wiki/hdt-0.3.6/hdt-0.3.6-pre2.iso
> http://www.hdt-project.org/raw-attachment/wiki/hdt-0.3.6/hdt-0.3.6-pre2.img
>
http://www.hdt-project.org/raw-attachment/wiki/hdt-0.3.6/hdt-0.3.6-pre2.img.gz
> 
> Happy testing,
> Erwan
> 
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Erwan <erwan at seanodes.com> writes:
> The -pre2 version of HDT 0.3.6 is out.
> Happy testing
Hi,

thanks for the great work!  Some notes:

 * My 2 GB pendrive is shown as: 1 GiB (1997 MB)
   What about rounding instead of truncation?

 * The Part number info for memory banks isn't aligned.

 * F1, TAB and some other keypresses remove everything from the screen
   except for the top window.

 * Deleting the top window with ESC redraws the new top window only,
   the previously obscured parts of lower ones remain missing.
-- 
Cheers,
Feri.

Erwan a ?crit :
> The -pre2 version of HDT 0.3.6 is out.
>
[...]
>     * Adding cpu core detection
Just a note on that point.
I was able to double check that intel cores are well detected but I 
don't have any AMD multicore processor.
If some of you could make some verifications on my work on it, it would 
be lovely.
Thx,