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git://gnx.ath.cx/syslinux.git On branch for_hpa, I've got several groups of changes (listed bottom up) -chain.c32: the beginning of a DRMK loader; I still need to test this further and document/code what ones can possibly work -mtools/syslinux.c: Check to be sure fs is not NULL in case libfat_open() failed, like it can on a bad filesystem. Try to present a useful error rather than a seg

Hello syslinux, Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: $ extlinux -i /dev/sdXN or $ extlinux -i file_block Also it can work with something like: $ extlinux /dev/sdXN --reset-adv or $ extlinux file_block --reset-adv We don't use a new option (I planed to use "-d" but it is already in use), it will check whether the

Hello, Happy New Year! These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that. I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids confusing others, I will

...290,7 @@ static int patch_file_and_bootblock(int fd, const char *dir, int devfd) sbs = (struct fat_boot_sector *)syslinux_bootsect; - totalsectors = totalbytes >> SECTOR_SHIFT; + totalsectors = totalbytes / sector_size; if (totalsectors >= 65536) { set_16(&sbs->bsSectors, 0); } else { @@ -284,7 +298,7 @@ static int patch_file_and_bootblock(int fd, const char *dir, int devfd) } set_32(&sbs->bsHugeSectors, totalsectors); - set_16(&sbs->bsBytesPerSec, SECTOR_SIZE); + set_16(&sbs->bsBytesPerSec, sector_size); set_16(&am...

This set of patches add some support for sector size >512. Currently it fixes extlinux, MBR for GPT and ext partitions. Other code is unaffected. This set of patches has been tested on a read Dell machine running a beta firmware.