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...n having problems with syslinux not working on one system. The error message was "failed to create ldlinux.sys". I checked and mcopy was installed. But upon further investigation I finally found the problem. I were starting syslinux for python (2.4) and in the python code I made it ignore SIGNCHLD. It turns out that this signal state was inherited by syslinux and it made waitpid() in syslinux.c fail which caused the error message. That is syslinux thought mcopy had failed when it had not. The solution is to reset the SIGNCHLD handler to the default behavior when starting syslinux. This patc...