similar to: SYSLINUX 2.03-pre3 is release candidate

Hello, I just received a serious bug report from Stas Kysel of rPath (with a great test case); it appears that deleted files can confuse extlinux so that it misses files. This is bad. As a result, I have pushed out 3.63-pre3, and intend to make a 3.63 final shortly. I would appreciate any help testing this. Furthermore, I would like to finish the SDI booting module, but I have yet to

This is a minor tweak on 3.11-pre2. If nothing new comes up, I will release this as 3.11 probably early next week. -hpa

Hi all, I have released syslinux-2.11-pre3; this is a release candidate build and if I don't hear anything negative by tomorrow it will be turned into 2.11. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

I just found a rather embarrassing bug in PXELINUX -- and what's worse -- I wrote an email about it and killed it off accidentally :-/ It appears PXELINUX doesn't free its internal socket buffers (it has 32 of them) when it gets an error reply from the server, including "file not found." This means it will eventually run out of sockets and "go deaf." This

I have released a SYSLINUX 2.06-pre3. This includes modifications to ppmtolss16 so that it should now be completely compliant with all modes of the PNM specification, raw/plain, PBM/PGM/PPM, with comment lines or without. ftp://ftp.zytor.com/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ Please test it out ASAP if at all possible. Since the fixes for -pre1 and -pre2 were pretty essential, I'd like

Hi all, I have just released SYSLINUX 2.03-pre4; this is the same as SYSLINUX 2.03-pre3, except: a) I have -- I hope -- finally fixed the Perl scripts so they work in UTF-8 locales; b) MEMDISK now supports gzip compressed images. For those who have requested it... you should really thank me for the last one. It took quite a bit of work, mostly because I had to move the installer to be a

I just pushed out SYSLINUX 3.73-pre3. The only significant difference over -pre2 was changing MEMDISK to use "safeint" by default. -hpa

I think I botched syslinux-6.04-pre3. There are two fundamental problems with the build: a) The selection of what pieces of the library gets included in the core is done manually whereas it really should be automatic; b) The build doesn't fail if there are unresolved dependencies between the libraries and the core. I will fix these. (b) is IMO fundamental to avoid this error in the

After thinking a bit of the multi-file support in 3.31-pre1, and considering a few users' feedback on the subject, I have made a couple of changes: 1. The dummy filename ~ can be used to mean "the main config file". 2. There is a MENU INCLUDE directive now. -hpa

I just uploaded SYSLINUX 3.54-pre1. This is a release candidate, since it fixes a bug which I considers significant. As it turns out, the problem with the graphical menu under Qemu/KVM (requiring -std-vga) was actually an invalid assumption that SYSLINUX was making, and didn't verify. Fixing the assumption was easy enough to do, so I have fixed it. Added is also a new set of menu

As suggested, I have made a 6.04-pre3 release. In addition to updating gnu-efi to the latest version available (3.0.9 + a few patches) I wanted to make the tree compile with -Werror on my box, which resulted in pulling a thread which in turn caused a whole bunch of things to unravel :) The end result was that I ended up refactoring much of the tree so that it now avoids building a ton of

I have, hopefully, found and fixed the issue with non-kernel binaries that appeared in 3.35. As a result, I have pushed out 3.36-pre6 and am classifying it as a release candidate. Please try it out, especially if you have had problems with 3.35. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

Hi all, I have released SYSLINUX 3.35-pre5 to the Testing directory; this is a release candidate and I intend to release this as 3.35 early next week unless I hear of any showstopper bugs, so please, pretty please, try it out. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ kernel.org has been overloaded lately, so it might take a while to show up. Changes in 3.35: *

Trying to get at least my backlog of bug fixes out... I'm hoping to do a 4.03 next week. Please help by: a) giving it a whirl; b) letting me know if I have missed any low-risk bugfixes. Gene: I did not include your UI branch in this release, because it made me a bit nervous... poke me on IRC when you have a chance. -hpa

On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 12:15 -0800, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux wrote: > > > I think I botched syslinux-6.04-pre3. There are two fundamental > problems with the build: > > a) The selection of what pieces of the library gets included in the core > is done manually whereas it really should be automatic; > > b) The build doesn't fail if there are unresolved

On February 11, 2019 12:29:41 PM PST, Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at infinera.com> wrote: >On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 12:15 -0800, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux wrote: >> >> >> I think I botched syslinux-6.04-pre3. There are two fundamental >> problems with the build: >> >> a) The selection of what pieces of the library gets included in the >core

I have just pushed out SYSLINUX 3.73-pre2. This prerelease adds support for the fact that the ACPI 3 definition changes the E820 memory detection spec in an incompatible(!!!) manner. Please test it out, as I'd really like to push a 3.73 out as soon as possible. -hpa

It appears that increasing the command line limit to 1023 caused the .bss memory area to overflow. Unfortunately NASM didn't detect this as it ought to have and therefore I didn't catch it as an error. I have dropped the command line limit to 511 characters and released it as 3.09-pre2. This is a release candidate; please test it out and if it works I'll make it 3.09. -hpa

I have released SYSLINUX 3.11-pre8; this is a release candidate. The differences versus -pre6 is that I have reverted the PXELINUX stack changes I did in SYSLINUX 3.10 since there are confirmed reports that they break at least one platform. As before, I hope to release 3.11 on Tuesday unless I get objections. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

Hi all, I have finally gotten SYSLINUX 3.50 what it feels like feature-complete for release, or something pretty close to it. As a consequence, I am declaring 3.50-pre16 a release candidate. Here is what's news since 3.36: Changes in 3.50: * New keywords allow the type of file to be specified in the configuration file. * It is now supported to load a different