[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.73 released

H. Peter Anvin hpa at anvin.org
Sun Jan 25 18:28:50 PST 2009


Changes in 3.73:
	* Upgrade gPXE to release version 0.9.5.
	* Fix a number of build errors on various platforms.
	* Handle systems with E820 "extended attributes" per ACPI 3.
	  Someone "cleverly" decided to change the E820 spec in a
	  backwards-incompatible manner!
	* MEMDISK: default to "safeint".
	* Adopt the moniker "The Syslinux Project", standard proper
	  noun capitalization, to refer to the project as a whole.
	  Thus, reserve the all-caps "SYSLINUX" to refer to the FAT
	  loader.
	* mboot.c32: add "-solaris" option to pass DHCP information to
	  the Solaris kernel; required for automatic Solaris boot
	  without using Solaris' pxeboot program.
	* config.c32: trivial COM32 module to restart Syslinux with
	  another configuration file from the command line (equivalent
	  to the CONFIG command in the configuratin file.)

Begin3
Title:		syslinux
Version:	3.73
Entered-date:	2009-01-25

Description:	SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
		operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3
		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 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
		3882980 syslinux-3.73.tar.gz
		4649012 syslinux-3.73.zip
Platforms:	DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.39 or
		later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
End




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