It appears that increasing the command line limit to 1023 caused the .bss memory area to overflow. Unfortunately NASM didn't detect this as it ought to have and therefore I didn't catch it as an error. I have dropped the command line limit to 511 characters and released it as 3.09-pre2. This is a release candidate; please test it out and if it works I'll make it 3.09. -hpa
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:55:07PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:> It appears that increasing the command line limit to 1023 caused the > .bss memory area to overflow. Unfortunately NASM didn't detect this as > it ought to have and therefore I didn't catch it as an error. > > I have dropped the command line limit to 511 characters and released it > as 3.09-pre2. This is a release candidate; please test it out and if it > works I'll make it 3.09.It is not yet at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ ( I got that page from http://syslinux.zytor.com/download.php )>From which URL is 3.09-pre2 to be downloaded?Cheers Geert Stappers
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:> It appears that increasing the command line limit to 1023 caused the .bss > memory area to overflow. Unfortunately NASM didn't detect this as it ought > to have and therefore I didn't catch it as an error. > > I have dropped the command line limit to 511 characters and released it as > 3.09-pre2. This is a release candidate; please test it out and if it works > I'll make it 3.09.Hi Peter, Works for me now :) Thanks! Regards, .lzs -- http://zitseng.com/
Geert Stappers wrote:> > It is not yet at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ > ( I got that page from http://syslinux.zytor.com/download.php ) > >>From which URL is 3.09-pre2 to be downloaded? >http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 22:55 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:> It appears that increasing the command line limit to 1023 caused the > .bss memory area to overflow. Unfortunately NASM didn't detect this as > it ought to have and therefore I didn't catch it as an error. > > I have dropped the command line limit to 511 characters and released it > as 3.09-pre2. This is a release candidate; please test it out and if it > works I'll make it 3.09.Works for me on: Pentium M (ICH4 chipset on IBM t41) P4/em64t (ICH6/i915 intel box) (the box that broke with 3.08) P4/em64t (ICH7/i955X intel box) Opteron (VIA VT8385 / K8T800) Dual Opteron (nVidia CK804 on an HP xw9300) VMware 5 (obviously fake, but good to know) I can probably hunt down more boxes to test on if you'd like, but they'll largely be similar to the above set. -- Peter