I just encountered my only bug w/ the ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combination from 3.52-pre5. Updated a *working* CD project w/ the new ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combo just last week. Booting my preferred Linux distro (Slax-6) from my custom CDs work perfectly, however when I updated a CD project that includes BartPE/WinPE, BartPE fails to boot w/ 'CDBoot can not boot CD: error 4" msg. For the record, the stanza that fails: #### LABEL bartpe MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL ^BartPE/WinPE TEXT HELP Boot the ultimate power tool for repairing Windows 2K/XP/2K3/Vista.... ENDTEXT KERNEL /BOOTSECT.BIN APPEND - #### I realized almost immediately what was wrong and rolled back to the modules from 3.50 and the boot error went away. In anticipation of pos follow-up questions: did not forget the -boot-info-table option; problem isn't media-related as I was testing under VMWare; generating ISOs w/ UltraISO (reliably for *many* months now.) This isn't an urgent issue for me, as I updated just for the helluvit. Just trying to be a good citizen, as you asked others to check out MENU HSHIFT/MARGIN/etc. Wouldn't have hurt to include a couple lines about the behavior of these cmds, just to cut down on some of the trial-and-error cycles, specifically the ones that position in relative terms (like HSHIFT+VSHIFT.) Can kinda see the utility of HSHIFT, but VSHIFT seems that it could really make a mess of things. Thanx. Later.... Cost Per Lead Media Buying TV and radio media buying focused on minimizing your cost per lead. http://a8-asy.a8ww.net/a8-ads/adftrclick?redirectid=5484439f8cc678118c06030be37effde Build A First Aid Kit Learn The Types Of Kits And What Should Go In Them. http://a8-asy.a8ww.net/a8-ads/adftrclick?redirectid=273075f3769056c575f1f9ccb65d4ada -- Powered by Outblaze
Duke McAllister wrote:> I just encountered my only bug w/ the ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combination > from 3.52-pre5. Updated a *working* CD project w/ the new > ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combo just last week. Booting my preferred Linux > distro (Slax-6) from my custom CDs work perfectly, however when I > updated a CD project that includes BartPE/WinPE, BartPE fails to > boot w/ 'CDBoot can not boot CD: error 4" msg. For the record, the > stanza that fails: > > #### > LABEL bartpe > MENU DEFAULT > MENU LABEL ^BartPE/WinPE > TEXT HELP > Boot the ultimate power tool for repairing Windows 2K/XP/2K3/Vista.... > ENDTEXT > KERNEL /BOOTSECT.BIN > APPEND - > #### > > > I realized almost immediately what was wrong and rolled back to the > modules from 3.50 and the boot error went away. In anticipation of > pos follow-up questions: did not forget the -boot-info-table > option; problem isn't media-related as I was testing under VMWare; > generating ISOs w/ UltraISO (reliably for *many* months now.) >Interesting... *huge* thanks for the heads-up. I will look into this. Would it be possible to give me access to your CD image? -hpa
> ----- Original Message ----- > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:27:35 -0700 > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> > Subject: Re: [syslinux] SYSLINUX-3.52-pre5: XP BOOTSEC.BIN Bug > To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com> > Message-ID: <46BE9A47.50600 at zytor.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Duke McAllister wrote: > > I just encountered my only bug w/ the ISOLINUX+VESAMENU > > combination from 3.52-pre5. Updated a *working* CD project w/ > > the new ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combo just last week. Booting my > > preferred Linux distro (Slax-6) from my custom CDs work > > perfectly, however when I updated a CD project that includes > > BartPE/WinPE, BartPE fails to boot w/ 'CDBoot can not boot CD: > > error 4" msg. For the record, the stanza that fails: > > > > #### > > LABEL bartpe > > MENU DEFAULT > > MENU LABEL ^BartPE/WinPE > > TEXT HELP > > Boot the ultimate power tool for repairing Windows 2K/XP/2K3/Vista.... > > ENDTEXT > > KERNEL /BOOTSECT.BIN > > APPEND - > > #### > > > > > > I realized almost immediately what was wrong and rolled back to > > the modules from 3.50 and the boot error went away. In > > anticipation of pos follow-up questions: did not forget the > > -boot-info-table option; problem isn't media-related as I was > > testing under VMWare; generating ISOs w/ UltraISO (reliably for > > *many* months now.) > > > > Interesting... *huge* thanks for the heads-up. I will look into this. > > Would it be possible to give me access to your CD image? > > -hpa >I'd *love* to exc the std ISO is 700MB ! Pairing it down to just the BartPE code makes it about 450MB, maybe I could get it down to 270MB w/ tight 7Z-LZMA compression. If you don't mind d/l'g something *that* big, let me know and I'll try and make a pkg for you to d/l.... trash can Browse a huge selection now. Find exactly what you want today. http://a8-asy.a8ww.net/a8-ads/adftrclick?redirectid=1559fae3f4485b16ccf3091ec2dc6a33 -- Powered by Outblaze