Syslinux - Dec 2009 - SYSLINUX 3.84 released

Syslinux 3.84 has been released.  This is a mixed minor new
features/minor bug fixes release.


Changes in 3.84:
        * SYSLINUX: make the DOS installer work for MS-DOS 7.x/8.x
          (Win9x/ME) again.
        * HDT: updated to version 0.3.6 (numerous changes.)
        * mboot.c32: now supports video mode setting if requested by
          the image.
        * MEMDISK: Fix floppy images of PC-DOS.
        * MEMDISK: Add support for emulation of CD-ROM images; patch
          by Shao Miller.
        * MEMDISK: Comply with the Win9x "safe hook" standard,
          allowing a protected-mode driver.
        * MEMDISK: New "mBFT" ACPI table, by analogy with the iSCSI
          iBFT table.  This allows detection from a protected-mode
          operating system without EDD support.
        * 32-bit version of the gfxboot loader (gfxboot.c32), so far
          experimental.  This will replace gfxboot.com in the future.
        * vesamenu.c32: new MENU RESOLUTION directive to set a screen
          resolution other than 640x480.
        * chain.c32: add support for loading isolinux.bin.
        * chain.c32: make sure to always return to text mode.
        * eltorito.sys: DOS driver for generic CD-ROMs; by Gary Tong
          and Bart Lagerweij.

Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        3.84
Entered-date:   2009-12-18

Description:    SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
                operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3
                filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers
                using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs.  The FAT
                filesystem version can be installed from DOS, NT, or
                Linux.

                It includes a sophisticated API for add-on "COM32"
                modules, including a significant subset of the
                standard C library.

                It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy
                operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE
                or CD-ROM.
                floppy install network ext2 ext3 pxe iso9660 cdfs
                memdisk com32
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
                4151840 syslinux-3.84.tar.gz
                5071189 syslinux-3.84.zip
Platforms:      DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and NASM 2.03 or
                later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL, MIT
End

                This version includes gPXE, to allow accessing network
                files via other protocols than TFTP.

Keywords:       syslinux pxelinux isolinux extlinux msdos boot loader

Hallo, H. Peter,

Du meintest am 18.12.09:
> Syslinux 3.84 has been released.  This is a mixed minor new
> features/minor bug fixes release.
Thank you - looks fine!

But: where is "isolinux"?

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

Op 19-12-2009 9:50, Helmut Hullen schreef:
> Thank you - looks fine!
> But: where is "isolinux"?
>
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut
>    
The announcement was more done like "The syslinux project" rather than
"syslinux component of this project".
Isolinux is inside the syslinux-3.84.zip archive in the /CORE directory, 
as isolinux.bin and/or isolinux-debug.bin.
I usually copy the debug one to another place, then rename it to 
isolinux.bin, then actually use it for a bootcd :)

Bernd

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Syslinux 3.84 has been released.  This is a mixed minor new
> features/minor bug fixes release.
Any reason my latest pull request [1] didn't make it?

[1] http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-December/013579.html

- Sebastian

Hi Hpa

When using mboot.c32 to boot image(s), on monitor it will print something
like the following

Loading vmkernel.gz ........ ok
Loading vmkboot.gz ......


I suggest a parameter can be specified followed mboot.c32, to control hiding
the real image filename and path. It may be hidden by a progress bar, just
like the mboot.c32 in VMware ESXi 3.5 installation CD does.

Best Regards
Sean Lv