Since I've gotten convinced the really serious PXELINUX/ISOLINUX bug in
1.71 got squashed, I have released 1.72.
Again, 1.72 is a bug fix release only. I have some additional rewrites
pending before I want to introduce features that use the new core code,
but let's make sure it gets usable again, first...
-hpa
SYSLINUX 1.70 doesn't introduce any new features, but contains a major
rewrite of some of the internals. It also includes some bug fixes.
SYSLINUX 1.72 and 1.71 are critical bug fixes to 1.70.
Changes in 1.72:
* PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Fix bugs in the new core code.
Changes in 1.71:
* Fix a "brown paper bag" class bug in the new core code.
Changes in 1.70:
* Major code restructuring.
* Relax the conventional memory limits somewhat.
* MEMDISK: Set up the "version number string" pointer in the
header correctly.
* SYSLINUX: Fix, again, "the bug that won't die": the use
of
the offset parameter with the SYSLINUX installer.
* SYSLINUX: Fix possible superblock corruption problem in the
SYSLINUX installer.
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Title: syslinux
Version: 1.72
Entered-date: 2002-04-23
Description: SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system
which operates off MS-DOS floppies. It is intended to
simplify first-time installation of Linux, rescue
disks, and other uses for boot floppies. A SYSLINUX floppy
can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other
OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once
it has been created; and requires only a ~ 8K DOS program
or ~ 16K Linux program to create in the first place.
Starting with version 1.46 it also includes PXELINUX, a
program to boot off a network server using a boot PROM
compatible with the Intel PXE (Pre-Execution
Environment) specification.
Starting with version 1.60 it also includes ISOLINUX,
a program to boot off an ISO 9660 in native
"no-emulation" mode.
Starting with version 1.65, it additionally includes
MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems from
nontraditional media like PXE or CD-ROM.
Keywords: syslinux pxelinux msdos boot loader floppy install
network pxe iso9660 cdfs memdisk
Author: hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by: hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site: ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
342285 syslinux-1.72.tar.gz
381731 syslinux-1.72.zip
Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.97 or
later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
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