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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".

Op 20100709 om 02:05 schreef syslinux-commits-owner at zytor.com: > Message rejected by filter rule match > I don't know why it rejected, this E-mail is to get the NEWS file updated. > From: Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl> > To: syslinux-commits at zytor.com > Subject: Re: [syslinux:master] NEWS: correct credit for new Lua work. > Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010

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-

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

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

This patch builds a floppy image with contains HDT, so users of GRUB or GRUB4DOS can use HDT too, without installing Syslinux. When you compile Syslinux, this floppy image isn't build automatically. To build it, runthe following from the extracted Syslinux source: $ cd ./com32/hdt $ make hdt.img As suggested by Pierre-Alexandre Meyer, all extra files required for building the floppy

>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

It is now possible to build a bootable floppy image which contains HDT, with my patch applied to Erwans HDT branch: http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/erwan/hdt.git;a=commit;h=16b37fe2266c920087f88cdec94243b71218d871 Unpack the Syslinux archive and build whole Syslinux first, then cd to ./com32/hdt/ and make hdt.img $ make $ cd ./com32/hdt/ $ make hdt.img Now you have a 2.88 MB floppy image which

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

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 default value (/boot/grub/menu.lst) when grubcfg=<filename> is used together with grub=<loader>. Examples: chain.c32 fs grub=/boot/grub/stage2 grubcfg=/boot/grub/grub.lst chain.c32 hd1,10 grub=/boot/grub/stage2

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]

Grub Legacy stage2 will read the install_partition variable from memory address 0x8208. We only need to change the value at 0x820a to the correct partition number: -1: whole drive (default) 0-3: primary partitions 4-*: logical partitions Signed-off-by: Gert Hulselmans <gerth at zytor.com> --- com32/modules/chain.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5

'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

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

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

Here is a patch that makes it possible to chainload GRUB2 core.img form chain.c32. It reuses the grub= parameter (used for chainloading GRUB Legacy stage2): - both loaded at 0x8000 - start execution at offset 0x200 (0x8200 in memory) GRUB2 allows to specify another "GRUB home dir" than the standard /boot/grub GRUB2 doesn't allow to change the configfile 'grub.cfg' name

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 =

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

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).

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