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Hi folks, Syslinux 5.00 is out in time for the holidays. This release includes a lot of changes from 4.06. I've included the NEWS entries below, which highlight the major changes. Lots of assembly code has been rewritten in C, which makes further development much easier (and also really helped for the 'firmware' abstraction that appears in Syslinux-6.00-pre1). So be on the lookout

Am 03.07.2013 14:11, schrieb Matt Fleming: > On Wed, 03 Jul, at 12:22:52PM, Andreas Heinlein wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am currently trying to get the gfxboot archive from Ubuntu 12.04 >> working with gfxboot.c32 under BIOS, using ISOLINUX 6. >> >> AFAIK, the Ubuntu patches have been added in 4.03, and in fact it >> works with the official 4.05 release,

Can't hold it off any longer... here it is :) Changes in 2.00: * ALL: Add support for "COM32" (32-bit COMBOOT) images. * ALL: Add an API for COMBOOT/COM32 images. See comboot.doc for details. There is a C development environment for COM32 being created; it should be ready at some point in the future. * Fix mbr.asm so that it

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

The following changes since commit ddb10ce99c327888ade4d2ba3e4c50ad12aaa059: Matt Fleming (1): Delete 16-bit COMBOOT support are available in the git repository at: git://github.com/geneC/syslinux.git doc-elflink-for-mfleming Gene Cumm (3): txt/: Add new AsciiDoc formatted documentation Makefile: add txt/ NEWS: add txt/ Makefile | 2 +- NEWS

Working on fixing lower-priority bugs that I didn't want to risk destabilizing the 2.07 release for: Changes in 2.08: * Add "timeoutcmd" to allow timeout to have a different action than just pressing Enter. * Fix bugs in the COMBOOT/COM32 command-line parsing. APPEND now works with COMBOOT/COM32 images.

Hi! I'm trying to boot this kind of file: $ file ibm_fw_bios_m9e144a_anyos_i386.img ibm_[...]_i386.img: DOS floppy 1440k, x86 hard disk boot sector (This is a BIOS update boot image for the IBM X Series servers). I'm booting with PXE on the IBM machine, with this pxelinux.cfg: $ cat pxelinux.cfg/default [...] LABEL update_bios_img MENU LABEL ^BIOS Update (img) FDIMAGE

From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com> Since we can't use __intcall() for EFI, and since we can now have the ELF module code resolve all our symbols at runtime, we should delete as many references to __intcall() as possible and just access the symbols directly. The most interesting patch is the support for weak symbols. We need to be able to reference derivative-specific

On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, Gene Cumm wrote: > Ady has an excellent point. Try the following instead: > > LABEL test > MENU LABEL test > COM32 pxechn.c32 > APPEND pxebsd.0 Thanks, that works! How do I use that in the generic case? The ?pxebsd.0? file can be called as? ? PXE loader ? COMBOOT (16-bit) ? DOS .COM ? Multiboot (although it switches back to 16-bit mode

I have released SYSLINUX 1.73-pre1. This isn't a bug fix release (thank God), but given the rather painful quality of the last couple of releases I wanted to get another prerelease out as I'm working on the new core code. I'm trying to eliminate differences between the various syslinux components whereever possible; there has been some unnecessary differences in the past which

Hi folks, Syslinux 5.01 is out, a week later than predicted but that's largely down to the realloc() bug described below. This release is mainly a collection of bug fixes for problems reported after people tested Syslinux 5.00. The NEWS entries are included at the bottom. There was a pretty nasty realloc() bug that took some time to find and fix, which resulted in memory corruption. There

From: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> COMBOOT API: Add get current working directory call to most Signed-off-by: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> --- Adds an API call to obtain the current working directory. EXTLINUX will not return the correct value yet however SYSLINUX, ISOLINUX, and PXELINUX will return the correct value. For the moment, EXTLINUX will ONLY return

Hi, I've read that Syslinux supports bzImage files now, but when I use pxelinux (which I hope also supports it) with a bzImage, I get : COMBOOT image too large What can I do to fix this ? Kind greetings, Wim Godden

> Hi, > > > All the "isohybrid.exe" I know of are based on the Perl variant. > > I just got one from > http://www.filewatcher.com/m/isohybrid.exe.39568-0.html > > Its strings seem not to stem from isohybrid.pl. > > Digging in slitaz source brought a shell script (that would be > variant #5 then): >

Since lot of people want this thing, I will try to take a stab at it. For now, I will hard code the menu in the code, and then somebody else can remove that restriction. May be we can add some kind of keyword to the config file which syslinux ignores and the comboot menu does something with it. I have one question about comboot: If I write a DOS program using C (compiled using watcom -3 -mt -osx

Is there a way for isolinux/syslinux to execute a list of comboot files immediately at startup, and only once? I have a bunch of small comboot .com files that I want to batch run immediately, then after that do a DISPLAY boot.msg similar in some ways to an autoexec.bat. For example: DEFAULT mycd APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us .... TIMEOUT 300 ONSTARTUP mybatch <- ???

I have released SYSLINUX 2.04, mostly to address the 2.03 MEMDISK bug. At the same time I'm getting the PXELINUX blksize and SYSLINUX installer changes out there, which hopefully is a good thing. New release mostly to address the MEMDISK corruption issue. Changes in 2.04: * ALL: Reclaim even more low memory by observing that comboot_seg == real_mode_seg is perfectly fine,

Hi, I was looking through isolinux and noticed you had trouble detecting 8086 cpu's. I have some experience with this so I thought you might like some different info. The behavior of the "push sp" instruction changed after the 8086 to pushing sp before updating it. I've included a snippet of one of my bootstraps in case you want to use it (or just want to understand better).

>information a bit closer; it'd find that it's marked accordingly. UDMA2.SYS author now worked around it, it seems you do something with "DPTE" in isolinux.asm but not using it (probably for memdisk or direct floppy/harddisk emulation?). also something about EDD v1.1 and v3.0 specifications and setting bits to 1. Anyway, the driver works now on: BIOS -> cdrom ->

On 10/13/2010 08:36 AM, syslinux-bot for Michal Soltys wrote: > Commit-ID: 9c8db7560e2dc83d1191bb2f90b4d4d0ae3d37d6 > Gitweb: http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/9c8db7560e2dc83d1191bb2f90b4d4d0ae3d37d6 > Author: Michal Soltys <soltys at ziu.info> > AuthorDate: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:57:36 +0200 > Committer: Michal Soltys <soltys at ziu.info> > CommitDate: Wed, 13