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Tested floppy boot on two machines (one PII 350, one 486DX4) Floppy boot with syslinux is very very slow, more than 18 mn to boot a linux kernel from floppy on the 2 machines. Tested with 3 different disquettes that were know to work, boot is reached after this very long time. Noise from floppy head make think floppy wait approximatly one minute between each read. No problem with pxe boot with

It appears that the 3.74 completely broke the "keeppxe" directive -- not due to the command-line parser, but due to mishandling of the flag later. I consider this to be severe enough to do a short-cycle 3.75. As a result, I would like help with: a) are there any other bugs that snuck through? b) once I have a 3.75-pre1, I would really appreciate help testing it. The goal is to have

Signed-off-by: Gilles Espinasse <g.esp at free.fr> --- scripts/Makefile.host | 2 +- usr/klibc/CAVEATS | 2 +- usr/klibc/README.klibc | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.host b/scripts/Makefile.host index d8ab687..6a6b949 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.host +++ b/scripts/Makefile.host @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ # # Both C and C++ is

We used syslinux package on IPCop with success to install from floppy, from cdrom, from usb key and pxe. I upgrade the distribution nine month ago from 2.11 to more recent versions (3.11, later 3.20). We add one consistent report of a laptop machine that boot with 2.11 but fail with 3.11 and 3.20 Symptom is that the machine don't display anything after loading the kernel and initrd. with

I have tested with 3.31 (does not broke /dev/null) and 3.35/3.36 that broke /dev/null I verify that /dev/null exist, then compile one of the target available on top Makefile and /dev/null no more exist. Example root:/usr/src/syslinux-3.36# cat /dev/null root:/usr/src/syslinux-3.36# make .depend Makefile:274: .depend: No such file or directory rm -f .depend for csrc in syslxmod.c gethostip.c ; do

Hello, are there known issues with some bioses not booting from Superfloppy format? All I get is the Syslinux (c) line and nothing else happens afterwords. Everything works fine if a partition is added to the device. Unfortunately however the target device can not be partitioned. Any hint? Sven -- Why are there so many Unix-haters-handbooks and not even one Microsoft-Windows-haters

I have seen it's been planned to change the default file name to be shorted than module.pcimap. One way to solve the longer than 8.3 name issue should be to recommend using mkisofs -J -r But is not module.pcimap going to disappear? Should HDT not parse module.alias instead? An option has been added on module-init-tools to remove generation of all module.*map files. Default behavior is still

Signed-off-by: Gilles Espinasse <g.esp at free.fr> --- gpxe/src/Makefile.housekeeping | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/gpxe/src/Makefile.housekeeping b/gpxe/src/Makefile.housekeeping index 1f5e115..d49416e 100644 --- a/gpxe/src/Makefile.housekeeping +++ b/gpxe/src/Makefile.housekeeping @@ -134,6 +134,16 @@ SP_FLAGS := $(shell $(SP_TEST)

Has anybody tried to boot a dos disk via memdisk with a usb flash device as a primary hard drive? I have a 512MB flash key that when connected becomes my primary hard drive (new bios) - 0x80. If I boot a MS-DOS 7.10 floppy, one gets the command prompt and I can see the contents of my flash key as drive C:. But, if I make a image of the floppy and boot the image via memdisk, then memdisk

gcc hardened by default is seen on gentoo, alt-linux, HLFS, etc. Patch fix on syslinux this error during gpxe compilation: [BUILD] bin/cpu.o arch/i386/core/cpu.c: In function 'get_cpuinfo': arch/i386/include/bits/cpu.h:79: error: can't find a register in class 'BREG' while reloading 'asm' arch/i386/include/bits/cpu.h:79: error: can't find a register in class

I made a patch that depending of gcc flavor add -no-pie or -nopie on libutil and dos Makefile. This fix fatal error like this sha1hash.c: In function `SHA1Transform': ../include/netinet/in.h:24: error: can't find a register in class `BREG' while reloading `asm' ../include/netinet/in.h:24: error: can't find a register in class `BREG' while reloading `asm'

Am I wrong saying that actually anyone that use klibc has to use insmod patch or build a monolithic kernel? Could not the insmod patch be include? That will make everyone life easier on klibc upgrade. Gilles

Is there a list of which kernel versions (are supposed to) work with (each version of) klibc? I do recall reading something that said klibc should run under any version of the kernel, regardless of which version it is compiled against. Following the new instructions on this list earlier (to use the KLIBCKERNELSRC= parameter to point to the installed kernel headers) as well as also making the

Compilation was ok with klibc-1.5.10 on linux-2.6.25. Distrib does not matter as it is inside a chroot a la LSF With the upgrade to linux-2.6.27 it broke on 1.5.10 (I try too the last 1.5.14) with make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/klibc-1.5.14' GEN klcc/klibc.config GEN klcc/klcc HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep KLIBCCC usr/klibc/__static_init.o KLIBCCC usr/klibc/vsnprintf.o

Hi, I'm doing a small hobby project writing some tools to put DOS boot images and Linux rescue images on a USB stick. For this I have partitioned my USB stick in 2 partitions, one 192MB partition with a VFAT filesystem (for the normal use) and a second partition with an ext3 filesystem. My aim was to provide a graphical menu (grub) to access the different images using memdisk. Since

Trying to be not long, on x86 I have 3 floppies images boot, root-1, root-2 Booting from boot image with no problem, I try reading root-1 and root-2 image in raw format. Reading root-1 and root-2 is made from boot init script, using klibc-1.5.9 or klibc-1.5.10 with debian insmod patch, and a vanilia linux-2.6.24.7 root-1 and 2 images are smaller than 1440 kB and are made the same way with cd

Hi, I once again have a problem with memdisk failing to boot a harddisk image to update my Thinkpad X200s firmware. I extracted the harddisk image from the eltorito type 4 ISO using the isobar tool. Then I added memdisk using this image as initrd to my grub, rebooted and it boots into PC DOS and then freezes (ctrl-alt-del still works to reboot the system). Inside Qemu however it works fine

Hello For a special task whit win98 i need to boot this sytem in a image of 160mb (created with virtualpc 5.2 and dskread) with memdisk, but the system shows me an error whit the master boot record and switchs in dos compatibility mode. Sorry for my english and i know that is an error out of linux. Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail

Hi Thanx guys for the help on understanding howto read dmi info! I now have a custom boot menu for install of different linux versions based if they have been installed before (reinstall is ok for users, first install is not), and installquirks like if we detect odd hardware, we add install options to redhat installer so it can install anyhow (for instance hp dc7800 who needs pci=nommconf as

Hi, I was wondering what's the best standard file extension for zipped DOS disk images and ramdisks. I've been using the following standard: .zi kernels, memtest86, memdisk .igz .img.gz zipped floppy images and ramdisks I'd rather have a different extension for ramdisks, maybe .zim zipped floppy images .zrd zipped ramdisks Any ideas ? It would also be nice if syslinux