similar to: SYSLINUX 2.20-pre9 released, now with EXTLINUX

Tying up lose ends, and adding the ethersel module for the Etherboot folks. -hpa Changes in 3.02: * SYSLINUX: The "unix" installer now sets the MS-DOS attributes (hidden, system, readonly.) * COM32 library: build the .lnx (test modules for running under Linux) as architecture native modules, in case i386 devel libraries aren't

Some people have reported portability problems with SYSLINUX 3.00, mostly due to the use of HDIO_GETGEO_BIG, which is deprecated; additionally, the advanced menu system wouldn't build for everyone due to a spurious reference to %ebp. This release fixes these things, plus makes the extlinux installer default to zipdisk geometry (64 heads, 32 sectors) if it can't guess anything else.

Okay, spending the time to dot t's and cross i's (or something like that), I think I have something now that can be called 3.00-worthy, so let's call it a release candidate. Changes over the earlier 3.00 prereleases: - -m and -a options now supported by the DOS installer. - PXELINUX now allows IP addresses, FQDNs, and truncated hostnames when specifying an alternate TFTP server

This is an attempt to avoid potential confusion. Here are some example sizes for the two Syslinux versions mentioned in the e-mail subject. Your build results might be different. 4.06: 1 55 Sep 22 22:23 modules/int18.com 1 108 Nov 1 18:07 version.mk 1 138 Nov 1 18:07 version.gen 1 138 Nov 1 18:07 version.h 1 239 Sep 22 22:23 modules/poweroff.com 1 408 Sep 22 22:25

> > > On 12/25/2014 04:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 12/24/2014 12:16 AM, Robert Yang wrote: > >> 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

On 12/25/2014 01:43 PM, Ady wrote: > >> >> >> On 12/25/2014 04:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> On 12/24/2014 12:16 AM, Robert Yang wrote: >>>> Hello syslinux, >>>> >>>> Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted >>>> ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: >>>> >>>> $ extlinux

> > Hi Ady, > > Thank you very much, I prefer this one, add the extN support to > linux/syslinux-nomtools, create a new "e2fs/syslinux" may make things > more complicated for the user, I will make it as: > > 1) If it is a extN device, then root privilege is not required. > 2) Otherwise work as before. > > Any suggestions is appreciated. > > //

> Is it possible to install extlinux into a disk image, without being > root ? > > It seems like extlinux --install absolutely requires the specific block > device in which extlinux should be installed to be mounted. This > prevents from doing an extlinux installation as non-root, which is > annoying for build systems such as Buildroot [1] that build a complete > Linux

Why doesn't the Windows Syslinux installer show: --offset and --directory too (I know it is not supported)? Because the Linux versions show the Windows/dos specific commands: --mbr --active and --force I didn't check the DOS version. If all options will be displayed unconditionally for all installers, it might be a good idea to add: --offset -t Offset of the file system on the

(snip) > It probably makes more sense in > the "syslinux" installer rather than "extlinux", since the former > already operates on an unmounted filesystem. > In other words, the Linux-based "syslinux" installers could / would support ext2/3/4 too. In particular, the (./bios/mtools/) "syslinux" command does not need special permissions

Correct typos. Improve format for asciidoc-to-manpage conversion. Wrap text. Correct info. Help phase-out deprecated and/or conflicting options. diff U3 /syslinux-6.03/txt/syslinux.txt /wip/txt/syslinux.txt --- /syslinux-6.03/txt/syslinux.txt Mon Oct 06 16:27:44 2014 +++ /wip/txt/syslinux.txt Sat Dec 27 18:20:27 2014 @@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ unmounted file system. For the DOS/Win32/Win64 installers,

> > > On 11/21/2014 02:33 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 11/20/2014 10:21 PM, Robert Yang wrote: > >> > >> which can copy files into test.img without mount it, for example: > >> $ mke2fs -t ext3 -d <rootfs_dir> -F test.img > >> > >> I'd like to make extlinux can work without mount the filesystem (use > >>

> On 01/01/2015 09:05 PM, Robert Yang wrote: > > 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

Hello everyone, I have released SYSLINUX 3.63. The main update is a fix to EXTLINUX, which would get confused by directories with deleted file entries. Special thanks to Stas Kysel of rPath, Inc. for spotting this problem and giving me an excellent test case; and of course to rPath, Inc. in general for being my employer and being extremely supportive of my SYSLINUX work! I have also

This is part of some patches to support sectors > 512. Currently I'm able to boot a Ubuntu kernel but seems that mboot is not working for some reason. This patch try to fix first stage of extlinux bootloader but have some problems with ADV Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio at citrix.com> --- dos/syslinux.c | 2 +- extlinux/main.c | 36

Hello, Thanks for your feedback! On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:02:41 +0300 Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at syslinux.org> wrote: > I think that you are misusing the options. > > Depending on what exactly "disk.img" actually is, you _might_ (perhaps) get to > install the bootloader by means of other options. disk.img is a disk image, which contains a partition table, itself

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:52 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: > make bios clean > make bios installer > > This should satisfy your goal. bash$ git clone git://git.zytor.com/syslinux/syslinux.git syslinux-6.03-pre11 bash$ cd syslinux-6.03-pre11 bash$ make bios clean ... bash$ make bios installer make -r -C /sources/syslinux-6.03-pre11 -f

Syslinux 4.02 is a bug fix release, but also adds an experimental new Win64 installer (syslinux64.exe), extends the new syslinux installer CLI to all the installers. Changes in 4.02: * SYSLINUX: correctly handle the case where the -d option is specified with a non-absolute path, i.e. "syslinux -d syslinux" instead of "syslinux -d /syslinux".

On 12/25/2014 04:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/24/2014 12:16 AM, Robert Yang wrote: >> 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:

After 64 prereleases, 626 commits, 52,742 lines of changes, and tons of work by many, many people, Syslinux 4.00 is now officially released. Syslinux 4.00 is the first of a set of major code restructuring releases. The single biggest new features are btrfs and ext4 support, and support for disks larger than 2 TiB. Huge thanks to: - Intel, for sponsoring mine, Alek Du's and Feng Tang's