[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.20-pre5 available

[Quinn]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Quinn wrote:
>
>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
> Hey... didn't lock the system... I'm doing better than expected :)  
> The above is almost amusing in comparison... I'd like to figure out 
> just exactly what actually happened there.  (It could be as boring as 
> it's trying to print the usage message and failing..)
>
> Did you see if there were any trace of the ldlinux.sys file (probably 
> as a hidden system file)?
>
Sorry, nothing at all got modified on the floppy.  Here is a hexdump of 
the floppy:

00000000  eb 3c 90 4d 53 44 4f 53  35 2e 30 00 02 01 01 00  
|.<.MSDOS5.0.....|
00000010  02 e0 00 40 0b f0 09 00  12 00 02 00 00 00 00 00  
|... at ............|
00000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 29 f4  16 2e 25 4e 4f 20 4e 41  
|......)...%NO NA|
00000030  4d 45 20 20 20 20 46 41  54 31 32 20 20 20 fa 33  |ME    
FAT12   .3|
00000040  c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c 16 07  bb 78 00 36 c5 37 1e 56  
|.....|...x.6.7.V|
00000050  16 53 bf 3e 7c b9 0b 00  fc f3 a4 06 1f c6 45 fe  
|.S.>|.........E.|
00000060  0f 8b 0e 18 7c 88 4d f9  89 47 02 c7 07 3e 7c fb  
|....|.M..G...>|.|
00000070  cd 13 72 79 33 c0 39 06  13 7c 74 08 8b 0e 13 7c  
|..ry3.9..|t....||
00000080  89 0e 20 7c a0 10 7c f7  26 16 7c 03 06 1c 7c 13  |.. 
|..|.&.|...|.|
00000090  16 1e 7c 03 06 0e 7c 83  d2 00 a3 50 7c 89 16 52  
|..|...|....P|..R|
000000a0  7c a3 49 7c 89 16 4b 7c  b8 20 00 f7 26 11 7c 8b  ||.I|..K|. 
..&.|.|
000000b0  1e 0b 7c 03 c3 48 f7 f3  01 06 49 7c 83 16 4b 7c  
|..|..H....I|..K||
000000c0  00 bb 00 05 8b 16 52 7c  a1 50 7c e8 92 00 72 1d  
|......R|.P|...r.|
000000d0  b0 01 e8 ac 00 72 16 8b  fb b9 0b 00 be e6 7d f3  
|.....r........}.|
000000e0  a6 75 0a 8d 7f 20 b9 0b  00 f3 a6 74 18 be 9e 7d  |.u... 
.....t...}|
000000f0  e8 5f 00 33 c0 cd 16 5e  1f 8f 04 8f 44 02 cd 19  
|._.3...^....D...|
00000100  58 58 58 eb e8 8b 47 1a  48 48 8a 1e 0d 7c 32 ff  
|XXX...G.HH...|2.|
00000110  f7 e3 03 06 49 7c 13 16  4b 7c bb 00 07 b9 03 00  
|....I|..K|......|
00000120  50 52 51 e8 3a 00 72 d8  b0 01 e8 54 00 59 5a 58  
|PRQ.:.r....T.YZX|
00000130  72 bb 05 01 00 83 d2 00  03 1e 0b 7c e2 e2 8a 2e  
|r..........|....|
00000140  15 7c 8a 16 24 7c 8b 1e  49 7c a1 4b 7c ea 00 00  
|.|..$|..I|.K|...|
00000150  70 00 ac 0a c0 74 29 b4  0e bb 07 00 cd 10 eb f2  
|p....t).........|
00000160  3b 16 18 7c 73 19 f7 36  18 7c fe c2 88 16 4f 7c  
|;..|s..6.|....O||
00000170  33 d2 f7 36 1a 7c 88 16  25 7c a3 4d 7c f8 c3 f9  
|3..6.|..%|.M|...|
00000180  c3 b4 02 8b 16 4d 7c b1  06 d2 e6 0a 36 4f 7c 8b  
|.....M|.....6O|.|
00000190  ca 86 e9 8a 16 24 7c 8a  36 25 7c cd 13 c3 0d 0a  
|.....$|.6%|.....|
000001a0  4e 6f 6e 2d 53 79 73 74  65 6d 20 64 69 73 6b 20  |Non-System 
disk |
000001b0  6f 72 20 64 69 73 6b 20  65 72 72 6f 72 0d 0a 52  |or disk 
error..R|
000001c0  65 70 6c 61 63 65 20 61  6e 64 20 70 72 65 73 73  |eplace and 
press|
000001d0  20 61 6e 79 20 6b 65 79  20 77 68 65 6e 20 72 65  | any key 
when re|
000001e0  61 64 79 0d 0a 00 49 4f  20 20 20 20 20 20 53 59  
|ady...IO      SY|
000001f0  53 4d 53 44 4f 53 20 20  20 53 59 53 00 00 55 aa  |SMSDOS   
SYS..U.|
00000200  f0 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
|................|
00000210  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
|................|
*
00001400  f0 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
|................|
00001410  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
|................|
*
00168000

As you can see, not even the fat table has been touch or even the data 
area - just an empty 1.44MB floppy just as
format a:  has left it.

Quinn