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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

hi, i've tested with 2 version of awdflash and uniflash: here the results: it only worked with freedos, not with win98 dos; with win98 the images were not bootable; but that does not matter; freedos is ok. awdflash 8.27.45: flash ok awdflash 8.27.41 (uses protected mode): flash ok uniflash 1.40: when starting flashing the program freeze. awdflash 8.27.45 never worked before so i think this

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

I have released 3.08-pre10, which includes a version of 'raw' support which should work when the CPU is in big real mode (called 'bigraw', appropriately enough.) Note that it will ALWAYS put DS and ES in big mode; there isn't any really sane way to test if they should be or not. -hpa

I have just pushed out Syslinux 3.81-pre10. This fixes some pretty serious bugs, including the fact that, apparently, isohybrid didn't work at all in CBIOS mode. Unfortunately it means that the isohybrid handover protocol has changed, and so a new isolinux.bin isn't compatible with an old isohybrid or vice versa (as a result, the magic number has changed.) -hpa

I have put out a 2.07-pre10; this version recognizes vendor-encapsulated (a.k.a. vendor-option-space) PXELINUX options as well as unencapsulated (a.k.a. site-option-space) PXELINUX options. Please try it out... I'd like to release 2.07 no later than Monday. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa

I have pushed out SYSLINUX 3.10-pre10 with the fix for Arwin's bug. Still no idea about the bug reported by Curtis Doty. Pending issues before 3.10: - Need for forward-port EBIOS changes from SYSLINUX to EXTLINUX; - Verify EXTLINUX functionality on Supermicro systems; - Try to make some head or tail out of menu.c32 hang, if at all possible; - NOESCAPE. - Curtis' bug (garbage at end of

I really hope to God this is the last prerelease of SYSLINUX 3.00... I have added code to isolinux to give a pointer to SBM, but in order for it to fit I had to reorganize sector 0 slightly. Therefore, I decided it called for another prerelease (sigh.) Other changes versus -pre9 is fixing the Makefile and specfile so the RPM builds, fixing up mkdiskimage and adding a README about how to deal

Hey, I just wanted to mention that the same problem still exists for me in version 3.09, altough the changelog mentions: Reduce the command line to 511 characters; 1023 caused memory overflows. Was this meant to be a solution for this problem, or does this entry of the changelog apply to another bug? thx, marco >Yesterday Curtis Doty said: > > > >>I've begun

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

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

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

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-3.62-pre10/extlinux' gcc -Wp,-MT,extlinux.o,-MMD,.extlinux.o.d -W -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -Os -I. -I.. -I../libinstaller -c -o extlinux.o extlinux.c In file included from /usr/include/linux/vfs.h:4, from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:14, from extlinux.c:43: /usr/include/asm/statfs.h:12:

Hello all, I have done more work on the syslinux shuffle library. This is more higher-level work, in particular it is specific to loading Linux kernels. This stuff allows manipulating initramfs on the fly, if desired. As a demo, I have written up a module which loads a Linux kernel with all the usual stuff, but optionally adds the DHCP packet from the PXE stack into a file named

Since I've gotten convinced the really serious PXELINUX/ISOLINUX bug in 1.71 got squashed, I have released 1.72. Again, 1.72 is a bug fix release only. I have some additional rewrites pending before I want to introduce features that use the new core code, but let's make sure it gets usable again, first... -hpa SYSLINUX 1.70 doesn't introduce any new features, but contains a

Eric Biederman has taken the work I did almost two years ago to port lwIP to Syslinux, and actually gotten it to the point where it is integrated into the filesystem stack and *working*. As such, I have pushed out a new branch "lwip" to the git repository, for testing purposes, and I have made a 4.10-pre1 prerelease which includes this code. I don't think it is ready for prime time

Syslinux 3.86 is out; it is a bug fix release. Syslinux 4.00, starting with Syslinux 4.00-pre38, is now officially in beta test. Special thanks to Intel Corporation, my current employer, for their support for my Syslinux work. Changes in 3.86: * chain.c32: fix chainloading the MBR of a hard disk (broken in 3.85). * mboot.c32: report the boot loader name in the information structure. *

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

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.)

I have produced a first cut of integrating gPXE with PXELINUX. This builds, in addition to the usual pxelinux.0, an image called gpxelinux.0 which includes the gPXE network stack. The result is that one can now download images via (almost) any network protocol supported by gPXE, including http. This lets one do fun things like using a CGI or PHP script for the configuration file. SAN