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Hi all, I have released SYSLINUX 2.12-pre1. This version has an initial version of libcom32, a small C library based on klibc for writing com32 programs in C. It is far from perfect yet, but it should be a lot easier to use than hand-coding everything. As usual, find this stuff in: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

This isn't strictly speaking a SYSLINUX release, it's a change to MEMDISK and mkdiskimage to allow the creation of hard disk images with DOSEMU headers. This should make it easier to create bootable DOS hard disk images under DOSEMU. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -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

Okay, I have finally become convinced that hardware address based config files should be a standard feature in PXELINUX, so I have added it. I am a bit worried that it might not work with all DHCP servers (since I'm trying to do this in a hardware-independent manner), so I'd appreciate feedback. This adds one more name to the list of names queried for the config file, before the IP-based

Hi all, I have released SYSLINUX 2.11. It's basically -pre3 with a few last-minute fixes. 2.11: Bug fix release. Changes in 2.11: * ALL: Add an API call to get the configuration file name. * SYSLINUX: Fix bug in 2.10 that prevented it from working correctly for a lot of people. * SYSLINUX: In the installer, make mtools a bit less fussy. * Make

Hi all, I have released SYSLINUX 2.09; it is the same as 2.09-pre15 except for the version number. Changes in 2.09: * SYSLINUX: Remove residual setuid crap from syslinux-nomtools. * Handle video pages correctly when using the API functions. * Handle compiling on an x86-64 platform correctly. * Menu system from Murali Krishnan Ganapathy; see the

This is 100% functionally equivalent to 3.54-pre1, with only a few minor documentation changes. Changes in 3.54: * Add "menu separator", "menu indent", "menu disabled" (see README.menu). * vesamenu: fix handing of VESA modes with noncontiguous memory buffers. In particular, Qemu/KVM sets up such a mode when Cirrus

This release is identical to 1.67-pre1. Unfortunately the people who reported problems with 1.66 never got back to me to indicate if it solved their problem or not, but since it fixes a real bug, regardless, I decided to release it as 1.67. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ -hpa 1.67 is a trivial bug fix release affecting a fairly small number of systems. 1.66 is an

Hi all, I have released syslinux-3.10-pre1. This is definitely not a release candidate; I haven't finished putting the bugs in yet never mind taking them out (or in manager-speak: it's not feature-complete yet, never mind debugged.) However, I figured it'd be interesting as a technology preview. The main new things are that I am adding support for dynamic initramfs

Hi all, I have released syslinux-3.10-pre1. This is definitely not a release candidate; I haven't finished putting the bugs in yet never mind taking them out (or in manager-speak: it's not feature-complete yet, never mind debugged.) However, I figured it'd be interesting as a technology preview. The main new things are that I am adding support for dynamic initramfs

I just released SYSLINUX 2.04-pre1. I happened to find that due to a complete miss on my point all the SYSLINUX derivatives were allocating 104K of low memory and never actually used it. It made it a lot more compelling to blow the memory on buffers necessary to support large blocks in PXELINUX. I've also resurrected the non-mtools SYSLINUX installer, although as a root-only installer.

Hi all, I have put out a SYSLINUX 2.09-pre1 release, mostly to support Murali's menu development: Changes in 2.09: * SYSLINUX: Remove residual setuid crap from syslinux-nomtools. * Handle video pages correctly when using the API functions. * Handle compiling on an x86-64 platform correctly. As usual,

I tracked down the source of the "invalid kernel image" in 1.73 -- it turns out that in two different places I was accessing word-sized variables as dwords :( Consequently, SYSLINUX would reject valid kernels. PXELINUX/ISOLINUX are unaffected. Thus, SYSLINUX 1.74 is out. Expect a 1.75-pre1 quite soon. I'm working on a rewrite using 32-bit code from the very beginning, which

Working on fixing lower-priority bugs that I didn't want to risk destabilizing the 2.07 release for: Changes in 2.08: * Add "timeoutcmd" to allow timeout to have a different action than just pressing Enter. * Fix bugs in the COMBOOT/COM32 command-line parsing. APPEND now works with COMBOOT/COM32 images.

On 4 Apr 2016 at 8:06, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Subject: Re: [syslinux] hdt error on syslinux 6.0.4-pre1? To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>, syslinux at zytor.com From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> Date sent: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 08:06:13 -0700 > On 04/04/16 07:14, Michael D. Setzer II via Syslinux

Folks, I've just released the first prelease for the 5.10 series. The intention is to leave 5.02-pre3 where it is and move to 5.10-pre1. The only difference between 5.02-pre3 and 5.10-pre1 is the merge of the lwip branch (and a single commit to fixup the -DDEBUG=2 build), which warranted a bump in the version minor number. See the shortlog below for details of the differences between

It's basically the same as 2.13-pre1 but with some makefile and specfile cleanups. For the RPM package, there is now a separate RPM with the com32 build environment. 2.13: Bug fixes for the 2.12 release. 2.12: Add a C runtime library for writing COM32 applications; minor improvements. Changes in 2.13: * MEMDISK: Fix command-line parsing "brown paper bag" class

Hi all, I have pushed out a prerelease of one of the development branches (I currently have three development branches open), 3.70-pre1. This release revamps a whole lot of internal APIs to support reading files without knowing their length ahead of time. This is necessary in order to support network protocols which do not advertise the transfer size. The immediate user-visible change is

Hi all, I have released a technology preview version of the elflink branch as sylinux-5.00-pre1. It is basically functional but definitely has a fair share of rough edges. Nevertheless it would be great if people would be willing to test it out and let us know what works and doesn't work... -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak

Okay, nothing like user mail at 3 am to keep one awake... I have implemented a filename-based syntax for downloading from an alternate TFTP server in PXELINUX. If the filename starts with IP address:: it will: a) Download from the alternate TFTP server; b) Suppress the common pathname prefix. I was considering also adding a configuration file option to set the default TFTP server, but I