After a couple of very late nights I actually have a VERY preliminary test of the rewritten SYSLINUX available for preview. However; don't expect it to do anything miraculous yet; the testing it has gotten can best be described as infinitesimal. In theory, though, it should now support EDD and FAT32, as well as FAT filesystems with very large clusters (up to 64K). NOTE: The Win32 installer has not yet been ported, and I haven't actually tested the DOS installer (which has been completely rewritten, and therefore is almost certainly broken.) Anyway, if you'd like to peek, test, or help out, please do download: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/ -hpa
H. Peter Anvin wrote:> NOTE: The Win32 installer has not yet been ported, and I haven't > actually tested the DOS installer (which has been completely > rewritten, and therefore is almost certainly broken.) > > Anyway, if you'd like to peek, test, or help out, please do download:Hello Peter, I tried to compile your test version under Slackware 9.1 and got the following errors: --snip-- gcc -m32 -c -o crt0.o crt0.S crt0.S: Assembler messages: crt0.S:65: Error: `4(%esp)' is not a valid 16 bit base/index expression make[1]: *** [crt0.o] Error 1 --snip when building under the syslinux-2.20-pre1/dos directory. Version info: Kernel: 2.4.27 gcc version: 3.2.3 ld version: 2.14.90.0.6 20030820 nasm version: 0.98.38 compiled on Nov 25 2003 I hope this information helps you. Quinn