Syslinux - Apr 2011 - Syslinux 4.04 released

After way too long, a new production release of Syslinux is finally
available.

Syslinux 4.04 is primarily a bug fix release, but with some new
features.

Changes in 4.04:
        * PXELINUX: Fix handling of unqualified DNS names.
        * PXELINUX: Fix timer bug when PXELINUX might be unloaded
          (Gene Cumm).
        * core/writedec.inc: Fix duplicate declaration and overflow
          (Gene Cumm).
        * GCC 4.5 fixes.
        * sample directory: Fix Makefile include (Gene Cumm).
        * ver.com: New universal DOS/COMBOOT application to display
          version information (includes DRMK) (Gene Cumm).
        * rosh.c32: updated; Using getopt() for internal commands to aid
          parsing options; Fix bugs in ls; add warm reboot and echo
          (Gene Cumm).
        * com32: fix a file descriptor leak.
        * gfxboot.c32: handle TEXT..ENDTEXT; error out on no LABELs
          found (Sebastian Herbszt).
        * Fix booting on non-partitioned devices.
        * MBR, isohybrid: Workaround for a BIOS issue on Acer
          Travelmate and possibly other machines.
        * COM32: Adding ACPI parsing libary
        * HDT: Release 0.4.1 to support ACPI parsing,
          improved mutli-core/cpu reporting
        * LUA: Updating to 5.1.4-2
        * SYSLINUX: core/diskstart.inc: Reset DS after checksum in case
          it isn't 0 (Gene Cumm).
        * win64: Script update for additional mingw compiler names
          (Gene Cumm).
        * diag: New directory for diagnostic-related tools.  Add a
          handoff MBR/VBR and geometry display images (Gene Cumm).
        * MEMDISK: use "mem=" parameter to mark available memory above
          this point as reserved (core already does alignment) (Gene Cumm).
        * MEMDISK: Additional disk probe checks and debug output
          (Shao Miller, Gene Cumm).
        * gpxe: add gpxelinuxk.0, based off of undionly.kpxe + new
          script (Gene Cumm).
        * isohybrid: install the isohdpfx*.bin/isohdppx*.bin files to
          make isohybrid images in one step with GNU xorriso.
        * PXELINUX: disable a hack that would make localboot work on
          some machines, but break just about as many.  Some machines
          which worked with "localboot 0" in previous versions may
          need "localboot -1" in this one.  If you have a machine
          which requires "localboot -1", a copy of the dmidecode
          or sysdump output would be appreciated.
        * Include a set of diagnostics by Gene Cumm.
        * Fixes for gcc 4.6 and binutils 2.21.51.
        * chain.c32: Allow "uuid" as a synonym to "guid".
        * Handle directory names starting with .. for vfat and
          iso9660.
        * New MENU HIDDENKEY command to provide a one-keystroke way to
          activate a boot option from a hidden menu intro screen.

Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        4.04
Entered-date:   2011-04-18

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
                6294749 Apr 18 14:25 syslinux-4.04.tar.gz
                7524067 Apr 18 14:25 syslinux-4.04.zip
Platforms:      DOS, Win32/64 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" <hpa at zytor.com>:

| Syslinux 4.04 is primarily a bug fix release, but with some new
| features.

utils/ppmtolss16 still uses the hardcoded perl instead from MCONFIG?

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.04/sample'
gzip -cd syslogo.ppm.gz | \
        ../utils/ppmtolss16 \#000000=0 \#d0d0d0=7 \#f6f6f6=15   \
        > syslogo.lss
/bin/sh: ../utils/ppmtolss16: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or
directory
make[1]: *** [syslogo.lss] Error 126
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.04/sample'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Another:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.04/diag/geodsp'
./mk-lba-img lba.img
./mk-lba-img: ./mk-lba-img: cannot execute binary file
make[2]: *** [lba.img] Error 126
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.04/diag/geodsp'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.04/diag'
make: *** [all] Error 2

$ ls -l | grep mk
-rwxrwxr-x 1 gzp gzp  7344 Apr 18 23:25 mk-lba-img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gzp gzp  1554 Apr 18 23:24 mk-lba-img.c

$ file mk-lba-img 
mk-lba-img: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically
linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, not stripped

64bit? Only 32 here.

$ ./mk-lba-img 
bash: ./mk-lba-img: cannot execute binary file