similar to: SYSLINUX 2.08-pre3 released

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

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

Hello everyone, I have pushed out SYSLINUX 3.08. It's identical in all but version number to 3.08-pre11. Sorry for everything that probably should have been done that didn't make it, but I simply haven't had time :( :( :( However, given several bugs fixed in 3.08, this seemed important... Changes in 3.08: * SYSLINUX: Fix performance regression (-s mode always

Changes in 3.10: * gcc 4.0.1 compilation fixes. * Add support for querying the PCI BIOS in libcom32 (used by ethersel et al.) * Fix PCI handing (ethersel etc) on several old chipsets (and VMWare.) * Try to deal with systems with broken EBIOS. * New API call to do "localboot". * New API call to query features.

So it turns out that -pre13 was quite buggy after all. Once I started running the list of tests that I described in my email, a bunch of those bugs came to heed. Now I think I've fixed them, and so have released -pre14. I have also formally decided to call the final release 3.00 when it's ready. Between code base rewrite + EXTLINUX + libcom32 + simple menu, there is plenty of

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

Changes in 3.11: * MEMDISK: Fix bug by which accessing the real floppy disk as B: in MS-DOS was broken. * Simple menu system: allow tweaking of the screen layout. * Simple menu system: better command-line editing, correctly handle command lines above 256 characters. * PXELINUX: revert memory allocation change that caused problems

Okay, let's hope *fourth* time is a charm... Changes in 3.06: * Fix typo that caused the ramdisk to load in the wrong place. Changes in 3.05: * New API function "shuffle and boot"; allows COM32 modules to load or construct (almost) arbitrarily complex objects, e.g. a kernel and its initrd/initramfs in pieces, and have the API core

Let's try it again... *fifth* time is a charm? Changes in 3.07: * Fix chainloading (chain.c32). * Fix zlib build problem. Changes in 3.06: * Fix typo that caused the ramdisk to load in the wrong place. Changes in 3.05: * New API function "shuffle and boot"; allows COM32 modules to load or construct (almost) arbitrarily complex

It's pretty much the same as 2.08-pre11. 2.08 mostly a collection of minor enhancements. Changes in 2.08: * Add new configuration command "ontimeout" to allow timeout to have a different action than just pressing Enter. * Add new configuration command "onerror" to allow a custom command to be executed in case the kernel image is not

Goodness, how many prereleases has there been in the last week... have lost count... Anyway, I have implemented the already-promised chainbooting API, and have included a sample program to chainboot floppies (it works for harddisks too, but only for the MBR.) As a bonus, in the process I actually discovered that booting .bs/.bss images under SYSLINUX was actually broken... that has been

I decided the FAT directory-parsing bug was about as serious as it gets, so I decided to push out a new release. However, I decided I feel comfortable enough with the new features (or at least, that they wouldn't break anything else, knock on wood) that I did the patch off the 3.10 development tree and called it 3.05. Changes in 3.05: * New API function "shuffle and

I have just released SYSLINUX 3.31. It is functionally identical to SYSLINUX 3.31-pre4. Changes in 3.31: * The simple menu system (menu.c32 and vesamenu.c32) now support loading more than one configuration file at a time, using MENU INCLUDE or by specifying multiple filenames. * The MENU COLOR statement can now control the shadowing mode. Changes in

I have released SYSLINUX 3.08-pre5. Sparse files should now work correctly in extlinux. Symlink support still needs to be added, though. -hpa

Hello, today I upgraded from Syslinux 4.06 to to Syslinux 5.00. But now the system won't boot anymore and I get the message Failed to load ldlinux.c32 Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue What I have done: 1) Installed Syslinux 5.00 2) Reinstalled "mbr.bin" to /dev/sda and /dev/sdb using dd bs=440 count=1 conv=notrunc

After some discussion/debugging behind the scenes, we are back on track, with updated Debian packages. 0_ Starting from an _original_ (so-called "hd-media") boot.img mounted in "target" (or "$target", or some similar notation), and the version of Syslinux-related packages in the OS should be "6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-6" or newer. At the moment

Well, SYSLINUX 3.50 has been in development since September of last year (it was originally a branch off 3.31), and the diff against 3.36 is almost 15,000 lines. I doubt it's going to be bug free, but prereleases can only get you so far with respect to testing. Thus, it's time to push the button and getting this thing out into the world. I hereby announce SYSLINUX 3.50. Special thanks

> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Ady Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > > > > >> > > We would need at least: > > > > A_ the partitions and directory structure in which the following items > > are _located_ : > > /dev/sda1: > > # tree . > . > ??? extlinux > ? ??? ldlinux.c32 > ? ??? ldlinux.sys > ?

Hi all, I have released SYSLINUX 2.08-pre7. This version rate-limits the ARP polling in PXELINUX; it turns out that it was giving people using automatic control via serial console a real headache since it caused PXELINUX to drop characters. As usual, I'd really appreciate any and all testing. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -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