similar to: Usage output of Syslinux installers is not consequent

Correct typos. Improve format for asciidoc-to-manpage conversion. Wrap text. Correct info. Help phase-out deprecated and/or conflicting options. diff U3 /syslinux-6.03/txt/syslinux.txt /wip/txt/syslinux.txt --- /syslinux-6.03/txt/syslinux.txt Mon Oct 06 16:27:44 2014 +++ /wip/txt/syslinux.txt Sat Dec 27 18:20:27 2014 @@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ unmounted file system. For the DOS/Win32/Win64 installers,

I just released Syslinux 4.00-pre40. This is now a Release Candidate, meaning that it is on track to be released as it currently is unless I hear back about currently unexpected problems. If you have a chance, please pretty please test it. -hpa

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

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

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

Without this final newline the help output looks quite ugly... Signed-Off-By: Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> if that's really needed for such trivial things... Thanks! /mjt --- syslinux-4.02/libinstaller/syslxopt.c.orig 2010-07-21 23:33:13.000000000 +0400 +++ syslinux-4.02/libinstaller/syslxopt.c 2010-08-17 22:37:24.955852630 +0400 @@ -125,5 +125,5 @@ void __attribute__

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.

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

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

LDLINUX.SYS uses a working directory. The documentation seems to improve if that fact is made explicit. So the working directory is added to the documentation (with a bit of vagueness and possibly not entirely correct, to keep it readable). Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl> --- This is a result of today's discussion of a previous patch ("Describe the --directory

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

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

"use integer" limits integers to 2^31-1 on 32 bits, which makes imgsize to be -1 on DVD images Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan at mandriva.com> --- utils/isohybrid.in | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/utils/isohybrid.in b/utils/isohybrid.in index 4671036..e98c59f 100644 --- a/utils/isohybrid.in +++ b/utils/isohybrid.in @@ -17,7 +17,6

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 20100708 om 14:24 schreef syslinux-bot for H. Peter Anvin: > > Update in preparation of a 4.02 release cycle. > > --- a/NEWS > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ Changes in 4.02: > stage2 of GRUB Legacy (Gert Hulselmans). > * whichsys.c32: execute specific command, based on Syslinux > bootloader variant (Gert Hulselmans). > + * lua.c32: a lot of new

utils/mkdiskimage.in: New option -S to sync zeroizing after each cylinder and to issue pacifier messages. --- utils/mkdiskimage_patched_03.in 2014-01-30 20:54:27.000000000 +0100 +++ utils/mkdiskimage.in 2014-01-30 20:59:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ if ( $file eq '' || $c < 1 || $h < 1 || print STDERR " -4 use partition entry 4 (standard for

'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

On 01/21/2014 11:13 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > My current theory is that vendors prefer to record > a cylinder aligned end CHS address over recording > an end CHS address which exploits the whole capacity. > This is used as an (inofficial ?) protocol to publish > the CHS factors H' and S'. > Indeed it is -- at least some BIOSes "deduce" the H/S to use

ldlinux.sys uses a working directory. The documentation seems to improve if that fact is made explicit. So the working directory is added to the documentation (with a bit of vagueness and possibly not entirely correct, to keep it readable). While we're at it, also convert the name ldlinus.sys to lowercase everywhere, even if it's clear its name is used in a DOS context. Signed-off-by:

I wrote a COM32 module which detects if the PLoP bootmanager was used to boot a CDROM drive or USB drive, by checking for the presence of the PLoP INT13h hook. The PLoP INT13h hook check works like this (NASM syntax): mov eax,'PoLP' ; Reverse of 'PLoP' mov ebp,'DKHC' ; Reverse of 'CHKD' int 13h cmp eax,' sey' ; Reverse of 'yes '