similar to: Possible source problem in 2.10-pre5

I have some users reporting problems creating isolinux bootable DVD bigger than 2 GB in Windows. The resulting DVD doesn't boot. I've found this problem also mentioned in some forums, but I wasn't able to find a mkisofs binary for Windows without this bug. Please note that this isn't a problem of isolinux. Creating the same DVD with a recent mkisofs in Linux results in a

Only to inform that I've just released the version 1.2 of makebootfat. makebootfat is a GPL command line utility able to create bootable USB disks for Linux and Windows using the FAT filesystem and syslinux. As far I know it's the most advanced tool available able to make bootable USB disks. It's able to autodetect/partition/format/populate the USB disk in a single step without any

This patch fixes ISOLINUX/SYSLINUX when using the kernel mem= option with a value greater than the effective memory on the system. At present, in this condition the kernel doesn't boot correctly. The default Linux behaviour (verified on 2.4.22) is to ignore this option if the BIOS reports less memory than the value manually specified. This patch force the same behaviour for ISOLINUX/SYSLINUX.

With the new 3.01 and 3.07 version I found a big slowdown booting from USB devices. On my PC it takes more than 2 minutes to load the kernel and the initrd filesystem. Compared with the previous behaviour of syslinux 2.13 with takes only 10 seconds or little more. The BIOS boots in FDD mode (DriveNumber variable is 0). I've also tried to disable the EDD support in the source. But the boot

The COM API provides a function to read from disk (int 22h, AX=07h) which needs a destination buffer aligned on a 512 byte boundary. gfxboot uses this function but doesn't ensure its data buffer is properly aligned. This leads to failures on a few machines (HP Pavillion dv5): gfxboot: isolinux: Disk error 09, AX = 424F, drive FE https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48814 has a bit more

Hi, I've a usb-key that boot regularly on a PC using syslinux 2.09; well, this PC (a thin-client) at the moment is the only PC that can boot from USB in my office... and it usually booted oretty well, without any hacks... After changed to syslinux 3.07, it stopped booting, showing a simple "BOOT ERROR" message, nothing more... Reverting to syslinux 2.09, it restarted to work...

This is the latest version of the gfxboot module. It's supposed to work on all Syslinux derivatives. I am not sure about the copyright notice and would appreciate any input. - Sebastian Index: syslinux-3.74-pre17-2-g2a9ddec/modules/Makefile =================================================================== --- syslinux-3.74-pre17-2-g2a9ddec.orig/modules/Makefile +++

Quick summary: Syslinux stops at "Boot failed". Which, from a quick look at the raw disk image, seems to indicate that the boot sector loads but it fails to load the .sys loader. The details: I've been trying to load Linux (or etherboot...or anything at all that is not NT embedded) into a set of Compaq Evo T20 48/64 for a while now. What I finally managed to do is using the

So here it is. Ugly and far from acceptable shape but nonetheless it seems to work. Parts are borrowed from syslinux core and of course the gfxboot patch for syslinux 3.63. Syntax: gfxboot.com <bootlogo file> - Sebastian --- /dev/null 2007-09-21 23:50:58.000000000 +0200 +++ syslinux-3.73-pre6/modules/gfxboot.asm 2008-11-22 19:01:10.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,883 @@ + absolute 0

The gfxboot COM module currently ignores the DEFAULT entry set in syslinux config file and always default to 0 instead. This patch parses DEFAULT entries in the config file and set the default entry accordingly. Signed-off-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at mandriva.com> --- modules/gfxboot.asm | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Hello all, I have just released SYSLINUX 3.62. This is almost identical to 3.62-pre16, with a small number of changes to the Makefiles and documentation. The focus of this release has largely been removing build-in limitations as much as possible. Quite a bit of work has gone into it. I'd like to specially thank my employer, rPath Inc.; I've spent a lot of time on this I wouldn't

I just want to send a quick note that I am running clean unpatched 2.4.15-pre5 with ext3 on root (and only) Linux partition on my notebook for a while, and it just works without a glitch. Congratulations to the developers (and users :) for getting this stuff in the mainstream distribution at last. Eugene

Are there any issues with ext3-2.4-0.0.7 on 2.4.6-pre5? The patch applies with offsets and no rejects. [I need the export reiserfs by knfsd functionality of -pre3 onwards. My intent for the test system is to protect all standard partitions /, /usr, /var with ext3 (easier to revert to ext2 and do OS upgrades) and try a mixture of ext3 and reiserfs for exporting of data and user home partitions.]

Anyone had any chance to try this out? -hpa

Well, I'm back and while I was on vacation I hacked up a DNS resolver, so PXELINUX now supports FQDNs (only!) in its alternate server syntax. That is, you should be able to type "server.domain.com::filename" and have it get the IP address; just "server::filename" won't, although I am considering changing that so that it uses the domain received via DHCP option 15

Please test this prerelease if you have a system on which 2.13 works but 3.0x doesn't. It's based on some of the stuff I have iterated back and forth with Nazo. Huge thanks to Nazo for trying a gajillion experiments and being very prompt returning results. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

Hi all, I have released SYSLINUX 3.30-pre5. This is the first version in which I think we can consider the graphical menu feature-complete. I would really appreciate any and all feedback on this particular test release. Also, if you find a machine on which the graphical menu *doesn't* work, I would appreciate knowing: 1. does it correctly fall back to the text menu? 2. what is

The 3.20-pre5 vesamenu works pretty well in ATI (Radeon Mobility M6) and Intel VGA chips (82865G Integrated). Awesome! If I remove the png file, it will fall back to the text mode. Just one more question, I'd like to make this text mode color looks like that default one in menu.c32, but when I use "MENU COLOR ..." to change the setting, it seems no affect. Where am I wrong? If it can

Hello all, With SYSLINUX 3.72-pre5 I think it's time to push SYSLINUX 3.72 into release candidate status. Please let me know if there are any bugs I'm forgetting... -hpa

The commit "linux.c32: move handling of mem= and vga= into the library function" also sets DEBUG to 1 in mboot.h. Is this intended? - Sebastian