similar to: Syslinux 4.00-pre32: some issues

The program name of the module can't be retrieved with argv[0]. I tested it by running cat.c32 (com32/samples/cat.c32). In Syslinux 3.85, argv[0] returns an empty string. In Syslinux 4.00-pre36, argv[0] returns some garbage characters. ISOLINUX 3.85 2010-02-20 ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al argv = 0x00182c44 argv[0] = 0x07fbffc3 = "" argv[1] = 0x00182c34 =

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

'nopassany' is missing in the MEMDISK documentation: http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux-commits/2010-February/000096.html - Gert Hulselmans commit aeb2406ea701d974c85aa7fdd9af7c53106d7e48 Author: Gert Hulselmans <gerth at zytor.com> Date: Sat Mar 6 22:33:09 2010 +0100 Document 'nopassany' in MEMDISK documentation. diff --git a/doc/memdisk.txt b/doc/memdisk.txt

Since Syslinux 4.01-pre2, lua is the master branch. This lua.c32 moudule doesn't support much. There is a much recent lua.c32, made by Marcel Ritter's: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-October/013383.html The last time he wrote about the state of his lua branch: ============================================================ The current state is: - VESA: - switching to vesa mode

cat.c32: check if filename exists. Signed-off-by: Gert Hulselmans <gerth at zytor.com> --- com32/samples/cat.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/com32/samples/cat.c b/com32/samples/cat.c index 16380b0..3930f74 100644 --- a/com32/samples/cat.c +++ b/com32/samples/cat.c @@ -15,13 +15,18 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) printf("argv[%d]

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

>From 1db8a8919482dbed4cc15509d8078b2f16a289bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gert Hulselmans <gerth at zytor.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:10:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] chain.c32: add grubcfg= for passing an alternative config filename to GRUB Legacy GRUB Legacy reserves 89 bytes for storing the filename of the configfile from memory address 0x8217 to 0x826f. We allow overwriting the

New module which check if the PLoP Boot Loader already has booted a CDROM or USB drive by checking for the presence of the PLoP INT13h hook. The following assembly code (NASM) can detect the PLoP INT13h hook: mov eax,'PoLP' ; Reverse of 'PLoP' mov ebp,'DKHC' ; Reverse of 'CHKD' int 13h cmp eax,' sey' ; Reverse of 'yes ' jz

git://gnx.ath.cx/syslinux.git On branch for_hpa, I've made the changes to resolve the issue noticed by Gert Hulselmans and confirmed as a bug by hpa and also show "-d" in the extlinux installer. (2 separate commits) -- -Gene

Comments fix and usage output corrected for chain.c32 - Gert Hulselmans Signed-off-by: Gert Hulselmans <kimmik999999 at yahoo.co.uk> $ diff -u syslinux-3.84/com32/modules/chain.c.old syslinux-3.84/com32/modules/chain.c --- syslinux-3.84/com32/modules/chain.c.old 2009-12-29 01:46:34.058793767 +0100 +++ syslinux-3.84/com32/modules/chain.c 2009-12-29 01:53:41.150794351 +0100 @@ -49,7

Hi folks! In my system i have a SSD card, and i try to install extlinux in it. But, my extlinux installation not work!! I make a initrd to boot my machine on lan, and my init execute a installation of extlinux version 3.86 on my SSD card. The installation on init is similar to: http://pastebin.com/szcYCCjR The return of installation of extlinux is: /mnt is /dev/sda1 And the install not report

Just in case we get a report like this when the Syslinux MBR is used together with an Acer Travelmate: ============================================================================ I have an Acer Travelmate and had the known ?Unregistered Exception Handler? error at boot time. Short Explanation: The laptop starts up bios and when the bios wants to boot from any media (not even your harddisk) the

Syslinux 4.01 is a bug fix release for 4.00, but also includes the new experimental lua interpreter, as well as the ifplop module. Changes in 4.01: * ISOLINUX: fix initialization on systems which don't zero low memory. * SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX: fix handing of disk read retries in EDD mode. * ISOLINUX: change the initialization sequence to avoid

Hello Sir, on Friday, August 20, 2010 11:32 AM Gert Hulselmans wrote > loading the boot file ... > Boting ... > "-" cursor keeps on blincking Are you quite sure that booting the Windows Recovery Console under syslinux can work and that "cursor keeps blinking" is only a problem of your special menu? YES I am 100% sure that booting the Windows Recovery Console

Good day Gert Hulselmans, You had reported to me at one point that MEMDISK -> .ISO -> ISOLINUX had failed under certain circumstances. I just noticed with a MEMDISK 3.86 that specifying the "iso" option on the command-line actually resulted in the .ISO getting BIOS drive number 0xFF. I had to specify "iso harddisk=224 pause" to confirm that it resulted in 0xE0 (hd96).

DRMK (Dell Real Mode Kernel), now used in their DOS-based diagnostic images (probably about 2-4 years), has a rather unusual entry into the IO file (DELLBIO.BIN; similar to IO.SYS and IBMBIO.COM). After fumbling around with it over the last few days, I _think_ I've figured out the quirks of this entry point (and successfully tweaked chain.c32 to do such). dl Usual; drive number bp 0 cs

I wrote a new module "whichsys.c32" which detemines which command to execute, based on the Syslinux bootloader variant. In the near future it should/can be replaced by a lua script. But for people who want small binaries: whichsys.c32 is +/- eighty times smaller than lua.c32, atm. Usage: whichsys.c32 [-iso- command] [-pxe- command] [-sys- command] Examples: whichsys.c32 -iso-

$ git log -p commit d8c5e94803fa01f0d52475a50b69681ad3135700 Author: Gert Hulselmans <kimmik999999 at yahoo.co.uk> Date: Sat Jan 9 15:30:49 2010 +0100 chain.c32: Add grldr= command for Grub4dos grldr of Grub4dos wants the partition number in DH: 0xff: whole drive 0-3: primary partitions 4-*: logical partitions diff --git a/com32/modules/chain.c

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".

The following patch for chain.c32 adds support to boot the Recovery Console of Windows NT/2K/XP. Normally when you want to boot the recovery console, you need to patch "cmdcons\0" into the bootsectorof the partition (8 bytes starting at 0x3 (4th byte)). We can do this patching in memory: strcpy((char *) 0x7c03, "cmdcons"); To boot the recovery console with chain.c32: