similar to: The homepage doesn't list the 3.73 release yet

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

$ 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

When I boot Hardware Detection Tool 0.2.3 or 0.2.5 with syslinux 3.73 or 3.74-pre11, I get: ======================================================= Hardware Detection Tool 0.2.5 by Erwan Velu CPU: Detecting DISKS: Detecting DISK 0x80: 0x80: PCI ATA : sectors = 703282600, s/t = 63 head = 255: EDD=3.0 ======================================================= Then it halts. Ctrl + Alt + Del

I got the following message with chain.c32 ===================== Loader file too largeBoot: ===================== Like you can see, there should be a new line after 'large'. I guess that some other error messages, will result in the same behavior. Gert Hulselmans $ diff -u com32/modules/chain.c.old com32/modules/chain.c.new --- com32/modules/chain.c.old 2009-08-17

chain.c32 of SYSLINUX 3.82 does set the boot drive passed to the DL register to 0x80 and not to the boot drive (CD-drive). This can be a problem if you want to chainload grldr (grub4dos bootloader) from a CD and if you want to let grldr search for its menu.lst file on the CD. For more info: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8457 This 1 line patch fixes the issue (Thanks to

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:

I and some other people have problems with running the freedos image included in Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD), when using memdisk for floppy emulation. Memdisk starts booting the image and freedos shows the following menu: 0 Boot Clean 1 Boot UMBPCI (silent) 2 Boot UMBPCI (optimal) 3 Boot UMBPCI (semi-defensive) 4 Boot EMM386 (optimal) 5 Boot EMM386 (semi-defensive) 6 Boot no UMB (defensive) 7 Boot

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: Kim Mik <kimmik999999 at yahoo.co.uk> To: For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com> Sent: Tuesday, 29 September, 2009 22:21:39 Subject: Re: [syslinux] Chainc.32 missing some \n one error messages > From: Kim Mik <kimmik999999 at yahoo.co.uk> > To: syslinux at zytor.com > Sent: Monday, 17 August, 2009 1:30:04 > Subject: [syslinux] Chainc.32

hpa, will there be support for lzma and bzip compressed kernels, initrds and images in one of the following releases of syslinux? I saw that you want lzma and bzip2 compression included in the kernel: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/f415aa765c09c9f7/dae008992e14840f?lnk=raot&pli=1 Gert Hulselmans

A floppy image with Drive Fitness Test hangs in VirtualBox 3, while the same iso works fine in Qemu. Tested with MEMDISK from Syslinux 3.83-pre6. Adding raw or bigraw doesn't help. The image hangs with the text: ========================== loading bootsector..... loaded... starting PCDos... ========================== You can find the gzipped floppy image with Drive Fitness Test at the

Improving chain.c32 help message Impact: Error message is more detailed In case of syntax error, the message is far more detailed and provides the same content as the documentation integrated in the source code. You can get this patch from Erwan's git repo: http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/erwan/hdt.git;a=commit;h=3fc3126d0c7df5701680e043c34f200166f24564 Add 'isolinux=' option to

Used rosh.c32 from syslinux-3.74-pre11. When I typed 'pzd' in the shell: > pzd /boot/syslinux > pwd /boot/syslinux I use an azerty keyboard. Due to that I typed 'pzd'. Is it a feature or a bug? Gert Hulsemans

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

'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

It might help to attach the attachment before sending. - Shao -----Original Message----- From: Miller, Shao Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 09:38 To: 'For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa' Subject: RE: [syslinux] isohybrid: change default offset to 1 to avoidparted troubles -----Original Message----- From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf

I intend to release SYSLINUX 3.73-pre7 as SYSLINUX 3.73 as soon as possible. Please let me know if there are any outstanding bugs with 3.73-pre7 that either haven't been reported or I have forgotten about... it's been a while. -hpa

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

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

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