[syslinux] Bug: config parser broken in ff78e2b62a45f18c0d427153f957d2f06c0f5c1c
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Mar 25 19:11:27 PDT 2009
Kevin Landreth wrote:
> Just a heads up while testing newer versions to work around a hardware
> problem it seems the config file parser is fubar.
>
> Broken: ff78e2b62a45f18c0d427153f957d2f06c0f5c1c
> Working: 332a924759efe50e783ad3116ecf17d518dfebe2
>
> $ git name-rev --tags 332a924759efe50e783ad3116ecf17d518dfebe2
> ff78e2b62a45f18c0d427153f957d2f06c0f5c1c
> 332a924759efe50e783ad3116ecf17d518dfebe2 tags/syslinux-3.74-pre7~1
> ff78e2b62a45f18c0d427153f957d2f06c0f5c1c tags/syslinux-3.74-pre7^0
>
>
> "append initrd=" and IPAPPEND aren't working anymore.
> KERNEL works fine, but append is missing.
>
> KERNEL linux.c32 APPEND vmlinuz initrd= does work however, but not with
> IPAPPEND
>
> I don't know what other features might be broken but I noticed these as they
> are relivant to my environment. On a side note, for the Dell R710, I needed
> syslinux-3.74-pre3 in order to boot it as the R710 has so many intergrated
> devices that it runs out of memory.
>
syslinux-3.74-pre7 and -pre8 are completely botched in the command line
parser department. However, I presume from what you're saying that is
broken even afterwards (i.e. ec90083cc6f7513d68807e19f893dbb27d2a45aa
doesn't fix it for you?)
-hpa
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