Syslinux - Jul 2010 - Syslinux 4.02 released

Syslinux 4.02 is a bug fix release, but also adds an experimental new
Win64 installer (syslinux64.exe), extends the new syslinux installer
CLI to all the installers.

Changes in 4.02:
        * SYSLINUX: correctly handle the case where the -d option is
          specified with a non-absolute path, i.e. "syslinux -d
          syslinux" instead of "syslinux -d /syslinux".
        * ISOLINUX: recognize the directory names /boot/syslinux and
          /syslinux, and the filename syslinux.cfg in addition to the
          isolinux-specific names.  Thus, "syslinux.cfg" is now a
          generic name, whereas "isolinux.cfg" or
"extlinux.conf" is
          specific to different derivative.
        * chain.c32: support setting alternate config filename for
          stage2 of GRUB Legacy (Gert Hulselmans).
        * whichsys.c32: execute specific command, based on Syslinux
          bootloader variant (Gert Hulselmans).
        * lua.c32: a lot of new bindings added to the "syslinux"
          namespace: VESA, PCI, DMI, kernel loading (Marcel Ritter).
        * btrfs: print a comprehensive error message if compressed or
          encrypted files are encountered (neither is currently
          supported.)
        * SYSLINUX: mtools installer: honor TMPDIR, error out on disk
          full.
        * Handle fallbacks from EDD to CHS, to deal with systems which
          announce EDD support but don't actually have it.
        * SYSLINUX: the mtools, DOS and win32 installers now use the new
          command line options.
        * PXELINUX: fix the use of IP addresses in TFTP :: or tftp://
          host syntax.
        * SYSLINUX: experimental Win64 installer (syslinux64.exe).

Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        4.02
Entered-date:   2010-07-21

Description:    SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
                operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3/4 or
                btrfs 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.

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

Keywords:       syslinux pxelinux isolinux extlinux msdos boot loader
                floppy install network ext2 ext3 ext4 btrfs 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
                5372011 syslinux-4.02.tar.gz
                6549222 syslinux-4.02.zip
Platforms:      DOS, Win32 or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and NASM
2.03 or
                later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL, MIT
End

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

* "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>:

| Syslinux 4.02 is a bug fix release, but also adds an experimental new

ld -m elf_i386 -T dosexe.ld -o syslinux.elf header.o crt0.o ldlinux.o
syslinux.o fat.o syslxmod.o syslxopt.o setadv.o getopt_long.o
bootsect_bin.o mbr_bin.o cache.o fatchain.o open.o searchdir.o
libcom.a
ld: syslinux.elf: section `.text' can't be allocated in segment 1
LOAD: .payload .text .rodata .data .bss .heap .stack
ld: final link failed: Bad value
make[1]: *** [syslinux.elf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.02/dos'

[kernel]
Linux gzp1 2.6.32.16-gzp1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 6 16:46:37 CEST 2010 i686
GNU/Linux

[glibc]
GNU C Library stable release version 2.11.2, by Roland McGrath et al.
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.4.4.
Compiled on a Linux 2.6.34 system on 2010-06-01.
        Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al

[gcc]
gcc (GCC) 4.4.4

[binutils]
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303

Dear Peter,

  First, thanks a lot for your great contribution to the Linux world! :-)
  There is a slight bug in the latest release of syslinux.exe : the '-s'
flag is not recognized anymore, but '--stupid' works ...
  Cheers,


                                                    Jean-Marc Vandel