Hi,,
I wud just like to inform that the previous issue of memdisk not booting
compressed images still persists !! The release 2.05 that was supposed to
fix this issue dint yet solve the problem !!
Please, let me know if more info on the problem is required !!
Bye,
Jassi
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> 1. SYSLINUX 2.06-pre3 (H. Peter Anvin)
> 2. Re: SYSLINUX 2.06-pre3 (H. Peter Anvin)
> 3. Re: pxelinux localboot 0 fails? (Philip Molter)
> 4. Re: pxelinux localboot 0 fails? (H. Peter Anvin)
> 5. SYSLINUX 2.06 released (H. Peter Anvin)
> 6. Netboot and PXELINUX (H. Peter Anvin)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:26:52 -0700
>From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
>Subject: [syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.06-pre3
>To: syslinux at zytor.com
>Message-ID: <3F467C8C.5010301 at zytor.com>
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>I have released a SYSLINUX 2.06-pre3. This includes modifications to
>ppmtolss16 so that it should now be completely compliant with all modes
>of the PNM specification, raw/plain, PBM/PGM/PPM, with comment lines or
>without.
>
>ftp://ftp.zytor.com/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
>
>Please test it out ASAP if at all possible. Since the fixes for -pre1
>and -pre2 were pretty essential, I'd like to release 2.06 ASAP.
>
> -hpa
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 2
>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:36:12 -0700
>From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
>Subject: Re: [syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.06-pre3
>To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
>Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
>Message-ID: <3F467EBC.6030605 at zytor.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > I have released a SYSLINUX 2.06-pre3. This includes modifications to
> > ppmtolss16 so that it should now be completely compliant with all
modes
> > of the PNM specification, raw/plain, PBM/PGM/PPM, with comment lines
or
> > without.
> >
> > ftp://ftp.zytor.com/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
> >
> > Please test it out ASAP if at all possible. Since the fixes for -pre1
> > and -pre2 were pretty essential, I'd like to release 2.06 ASAP.
> >
>
>Correction for the URL:
>
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:40:43 -0500
>From: Philip Molter <philip at staff.texas.net>
>Subject: Re: [syslinux] pxelinux localboot 0 fails?
>To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
>Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
>Message-ID: <20030822194043.G1498 at staff.texas.net>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:38:35AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>: At this point, only using a COMBOOT program. It's on my list of
things
>: to add at some point.
>
>I should shoot myself. I didn't realize I was using 2.00, and the
>problem is fixed in 2.05. Carry on. There's nothing to see here.
>
>* Philip Molter
>* Texas.Net Internet
>* http://www.texas.net/
>* philip at texas.net
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 4
>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:43:17 -0700
>From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
>Subject: Re: [syslinux] pxelinux localboot 0 fails?
>To: Philip Molter <philip at staff.texas.net>
>Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
>Message-ID: <3F46B8A5.5080506 at zytor.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>Philip Molter wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:38:35AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > : At this point, only using a COMBOOT program. It's on my list of
>things
> > : to add at some point.
> >
> > I should shoot myself. I didn't realize I was using 2.00, and the
> > problem is fixed in 2.05. Carry on. There's nothing to see here.
> >
> > * Philip Molter
> > * Texas.Net Internet
> > * http://www.texas.net/
> > * philip at texas.net
>
>Perhaps you could redeem yourself by trying out 2.06-pre4 and send me a
>report? ;)
>
> -hpa
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 5
>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:42:00 -0700
>From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
>Subject: [syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.06 released
>To: syslinux at zytor.com
>Message-ID: <3F46C668.9080603 at zytor.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
>I have released SYSLINUX 2.06; it's basically identical to 2.06-pre4.
>
>I'm doing this now because the bug fixes are so major and because I am
>not sure I'll be around next week.
>
> -hpa
>
>
>2.06 is a bug fix release.
>
>Changes in 2.06:
> * ALL: Fix problem that would occationally cause a
> boot failure, depending on the length of the kernel.
> * ISOLINUX: Fix problem that would occationally cause a
> boot failure, depending on the length of directories.
> * SYSLINUX: Win32 installer now flushes buffers.
> * ppmtolss16: Be fully compliant with the PPM spec;
> actually process comments in the header and odd
> alignments of the various parameters, as well as
> "plain" (not raw) files and PBM and PGM files.
> * PXELINUX: Lower the default MTU to 1472 in order to deal
> with systems with slightly nonstandard MTUs, and PXE
> stacks which don't defragment correctly. Unfortunately this
> is very hard to test dynamically.
>
>Begin3
>Title: syslinux
>Version: 2.06
>Entered-date: 2003-08-22
>Description: SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
> operating system which operates off MS-DOS floppies,
> network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs.
> 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 very small DOS or Linux program to
> create in the first place. It also 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
> 401889 syslinux-2.06.tar.gz
> 496020 syslinux-2.06.zip
>Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
>Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.35 or
> later required to build from source.
>Copying-policy: GPL
>End
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 6
>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:54:36 -0700
>From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
>Subject: [syslinux] Netboot and PXELINUX
>To: syslinux at zytor.com
>Cc: Gero Kuhlmann <gero at gkminix.han.de>
>Message-ID: <3F46D76C.2050001 at zytor.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have just been informed that Netboot (http://netboot.sourceforge.net/)
>can be used to produce PXE boot ROMs. I wonder if anyone has tried
>running this combination with PXELINUX? This is obviously a really big
>deal... :)
>
> -hpa
>
>
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