Syslinux - Mar 2011 - Syslinux 4.04-pre14: anything missing please holler

If there is anything that you think should have been in Syslinux 4.04
which isn't there please holler now.

	-hpa

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

> If there is anything that you think should have been in 
> Syslinux 4.04 which isn't there please holler now.
I wouldn't say it's missing, but I wonder when/if gpxe will be replaced
with ipxe?

Cheers,
Daniel

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 18:49, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
wrote:
> If there is anything that you think should have been in Syslinux 4.04
> which isn't there please holler now.
>
> ? ? ? ?-hpa
I'm not sure if there's time but...

A user found an issue when using Syslinux 4.04-pre14 mbr/mbr.bin, an
EXT2 partition from sectors 2048 to 4095 flagged as active in slot 1
and using extlinux/extlinux from Syslinux-4.04-pre14 to the directory
boot/syslinux.  I first tried an image they posted then recreated
everything from scratch.  I also tried the root director of the file
system with the same results.

The entire banner is displayed and then it seems to hang.  After
waiting about 12 seconds my VM displayed some strange "extended" ASCII
pattern then 2 seconds later rebooted.

Character 215 in bright green, black background, two blank characters
(no clue if there's something more), then possibly character 254 in
medium green, magenta background.  This 4-character pattern fills the
entire screen.  (this part is probably irrelevant but figured mention
it).

Next up: bochs and internal debugger.  I'm thinking that I need to
target how Syslinux handles the geometry of the partition but very
unsure.

-- 
-Gene

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 18:49, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
wrote:
> If there is anything that you think should have been in Syslinux 4.04
> which isn't there please holler now.
>
> ? ? ? ?-hpa
Sending this publicly in case it may concern anyone.

Branch memdiskdbg-for-sha0.  In Sha0's email dated 3 Mar 2011 21:18:00
-0500 in reply to my message titled "[PATCH][git-pull] Reminders", I
have the impression that he's satisfied with the changes.  I also
discussed the purpose in that email.

-- 
-Gene

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 18:49, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
wrote:
> If there is anything that you think should have been in Syslinux 4.04
> which isn't there please holler now.
>
> ? ? ? ?-hpa
There appears to be something wrong sometimes with
gpxe/gpxelinux{,k}.0 when I compiled it myself.  The two should be
almost equal in size as they are in the -pre14 build.  In one build,
gpxe/gpxelinux.0 did not include the script nor pxelinux.0.  However,
when I make blib.a and gpxelinux individually, it works.  It could,
however, be a bug in my make as it's not consistent.  From a "make
spotless;make", at least gpxe/gpxelinux.0 is too small but "make
spotless;make;rm gpxe/gpxelinux*.0;make" seems to work consistently.

Perhaps src/bin/undionly.kpxe should depend on gpxelinux.0 in order to
prevent the clash.

-- 
-Gene