[syslinux] 3 Bugs in SysLinux -3.86

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/09/2010 05:24 PM, Gert Hulselmans wrote:
> Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>> As the first step, I want to thank everybody involved for making a
>> majorly useful application!
>>
>> Second, here are the problems I see:
>>
>> Bug 1: if DEFAULT is not a tag, but a kernel name, menu.c32 fails loading.
>>
> 
> Can you post your config file?
> 

It's not a bug per se, although perhaps a bit unfortunate.  menu.c32
uses DEFAULT to know what menu item to select by default, as such it
needs to be a label.  It probably would be better if it just ignored a
nonlabel, though.

>> Bug 2: When menu.c32 returns to syslinux (on pressing Esc), the splash
>>        screen is not shown;
>>
> 
> Can you post your config file?

Not a bug; display files are not displayed on the exit of a module.

	-hpa