similar to: SYSLINUX 3.00-pre10 released

I have just released SYSLINUX 3.00-pre9. The only change versus 3.00-pre8 is that the MEMDISK query API now reports the boot loader ID byte, per Bernd's suggestion. This is a release candidate, and I plan to release it as 3.00 *tomorrow*, unless I hear back anything bad. -hpa

I know everyone is itching to test out another prerelease, and there's been quite a lot of activity since the last one. The shortlog is appended below. The feedback from testing the previous prereleases has been really constructive, so thanks to everyone for that. That feedback has been addressed in some of the commits listed below, but it's not all bug fixes, we've also got some new

I've been working with Matt Burgess here on this problem, and have found the following: syslinux 3.08-pre10 ? broken >>> config.inc:max_cmd_len=255 syslinux 3.08-pre11 ? works >>> config.inc:max_cmd_len=1023 syslinux 3.08 ? works >>> config.inc:max_cmd_len=1023 syslinux 3.09-pre1 ? works >>> config.inc:max_cmd_len=1023 syslinux 3.09-pre2 ? broken

Hi, I'm Florent BERANGER, from Flonix ( http://www.flonix.com ). After several tests, we have found that Syslinux 3.00 pre9 is no longer compatible with USB stick booting. Syslinux 2.13 works fine with this feature. Error infos : Syslinux 3.00 pre9 only displays its version and a new line with a "a" character and then hangs. Tests configuration : Syslinux applied from : Linux

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

Okay, the serial port feature in 3.11-pre9 was of course completely broken (I seem to have bad luck with -pre9's :)... a 3.11-pre10 is now available, and it does seem to have a more reliable handling of arrow keys ... *but not perfect*. There simply is no way to reliably detect both [Esc] and arrow keys on existing serial consoles. -hpa

Hello everyone, I have just released SYSLINUX 3.52, being functionally identical to 3.52-pre10. Changes in 3.52: * Handle capitalized F-key commands in the menu system. * Fix padding error when loading multiple ramdisks. * Workaround for VMware crashing when trying to print a message during early kernel boot (does not seem to work, consider deleting.)

Ok, despite what I said yesterday I decided to release a 2.08-pre10. The only difference over 2.08-pre9 is that I have added a small program in the "samples" directory called chain.c32. This allows chainbooting local floppies and hard disks: chain fd0 ; Chainboot the first floppy drive chain hd0 ; Chainboot the first hard drive chain hd1 3 ; Chainboot partition 3 on the second

This version fixes a couple of bugs in ISOLINUX related to filename parsing against -pre9. PLEASE test it out, especially if you're using PXELINUX and have had machines on which PXELINUX doesn't boot, as I'm hopefully going to release it as 2.00 in the next couple of days. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

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.

Hi, Dean Graff wrote: > Also, I am trying to use the syntax: > > mkdiskimage -z -F -4 binary.img 1000 > > To get that zip drive geometry for my images and increase the > portable ness of their boot ability. Will this work, to make the zip > drive geometry and then dd or cat this to the 'mass storage device' ? The copy program should not care what is in the image

Hi folks, There are enough changes on the 'firmware' branch to warrant another prerelease. Things that jump out are the changes to update the current working directory when executing syslinux.efi (previously .c32 failed to load if installed to a non-standard directory such as /boot/syslinux, because the current working directory wasn't correct), the realloc() fix from Shao and a new

... and this is pretty much the first version of 2.20 which can be considered likely to actually work, except for the Win32 installer. The big news in this prerelease, by far, is EXTLINUX. I'm also hacking on a "simple menu system" as a com32 module; basically a hack to re-parse the config file and display a menu of its label statements. Don't know when that'll be ready

I'm playing with syslinux 3.0x to get PC to boot from USB key... In particular, I'm giving a look at the "ZIP geometry hack" to get some more BIOS boot working with USB... Some question: - if we have a usbkey with a single partition, can we change the geometry without requiring to reformat the partition? Or is a reformat unavoidable? - at the moment we can use the "ZIP

Hi, hpa: > The mkdiskimage tool in the Syslinux distribution exists for this reason. Then http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#Creating_a_Bootable_Disk should point to a tutorial for mkdiskimage. I cannot spot any occurence of "mkdiskimage" in http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/HowTos Is there already a

In message <2008564557425199875 at scdbackup.webframe.org>, "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> what exactly did we determine that GA-M55Plus-S3G is failing >> to support? > >It appears to be related to the choice of CHS addressing with >the FAT filesystem. This opens the door for misperceived factors >of

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

After all the bug fixes over the last few weeks I thought it was high time to release 2.07. It certainly doesn't fix everything, but it fixes several important problems people have reported. Changes in 2.07: * MEMDISK: Workaround for BIOSes which go into a snit when they get a RESET command for the floppy system when there is no floppy in the system.

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

I have released SYSLINUX 1.75 -- this one is identical to 1.75-pre9 except the version number. I have gotten enough testing done that I feel it's time to release... Changes in 1.75: * ALL: NASM 0.98.32 or later is now required to build SYSLINUX from sources. * SYSLINUX: put back in the workaround for the BIOS floppy table. This seems to be a