[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.32-pre7 release candidate

[H. Peter Anvin]

Curtis Doty wrote:
> 3:02pm H. Peter Anvin said:
> 
>> Curtis Doty wrote:
>>> Apparently, there is some inconsistency/conflict with displaying an rle
>>> during boot and using a negative END_ROW. Also FYI, documentation still says
>>> default value is 24.
>> Uh, okay... that's a bit unexpected.  I'll have to look into this further.
> 
> Yes. I just test/verified with the sample.msg/syslogo.lss in 3.32-pre8. 
> Here an ENDROW -4 still fails, but ENDROW -5 works for some reason!
> 
> However, any text output from a menu item is *not* displayed five lines 
> from the bottom. Double-however, if I immediately reload menu.c32 
> (bypassing the DISPLAY foo) successive text output *will* appear; and at 
> the appropriate spot.
> 
> So this is only related to the ^X and resulting video mode switch. And 
> only when ENDROW is -4 to -1.
> 

I wonder if your BIOS mishandles graphics mode rows 25 to 29 (in VGA 
graphics mode, there are 30 lines; in VGA text mode, there are 25.)

	-hpa