[syslinux] syslinux current dir
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu May 17 10:42:19 PDT 2007
Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
>
>> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>> Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:
>>>
>>>> So here we go, my first shot at the problem. It doesn't work.
>>> Any word on this approach? I couldn't hunt for the bug yet.
>> It seems it should work for SYSLINUX, EXTLINUX and ISOLINUX. PXELINUX
>> needs separate handling, since its "current directory" is a
>> server+prefix combination.
>
> Yep, I forgot about that. The prefix change is probably analogous (I
> didn't check), hope the server change is easy, too. But I guess
> that's not too important to have.
Actually for a lot of users, it's *very* important. It should be quite
easy, though.
> Too bad the patch doesn't work (not that I expected that). I'll check
> for some invalidated registers, and come back for advice if I can't
> find the bug.
I recommend setting up a simulator -- you can use Qemu with gdb, or
Bochs (which has an internal debugger), for example; AMD also has a
downloadable version of SimNow! available.
-hpa
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