[syslinux] SYSLINUX 1.67 released

[H. Peter Anvin]

This release is identical to 1.67-pre1.  Unfortunately the people who 
reported problems with 1.66 never got back to me to indicate if it 
solved their problem or not, but since it fixes a real bug, regardless, 
I decided to release it as 1.67.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

	-hpa



1.67 is a trivial bug fix release affecting a fairly small number of
systems.

1.66 is an extremely minor patch to avoid problems compiling from
source with some versions of gcc.

1.65 is a feature enhancement release, significantly improving the
support for booting legacy operating systems from nontraditional
media, especially via the new MEMDISK component.

Changes in 1.67:
         * Handle bug in the location of initrd.

Changes in 1.66:
         * MEMDISK: Make compile with newer versions of gcc.

Changes in 1.65:
         * ISOLINUX: Support booting disk image files (to boot DOS or
           other non-Linux operating systems), *IF* the BIOS works
           correctly; unfortunately many BIOSes apparently don't.
         * Support Linux boot protocol version 2.03 (explicitly
           specify the initrd address limit.)
         * Handle small "pseudo-kernels"; images that use the Linux
           kernel boot protocols but are less than 64K in size.
         * MEMDISK: New subsystem; this is a driver which allows
           legacy OSes to boot using an in-memory simulated disk.
           See memdisk/memdisk.doc for more info.
         * PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Correctly handle files larger than 65535
           blocks (32 MB for PXELINUX, 128 MB for ISOLINUX.)
         * PXELINUX: Make a best-effort attempt at freeing all memory
           claimed.  From the looks of it, it will fail on most PXE
           stacks.

Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        1.67
Entered-date:   2002-02-03
Description:    SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system
                 which operates off MS-DOS floppies.  It is intended to
                 simplify first-time installation of Linux, rescue
                 disks, and other uses for boot floppies.  A SYSLINUX floppy
                 can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other
                 OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once
                 it has been created; and requires only a ~ 8K DOS program
                 or ~ 16K Linux program to create in the first place.
                 Starting with version 1.46 it also includes PXELINUX, a
                 program to boot off a network server using a boot PROM
                 compatible with the Intel PXE (Pre-Execution
                 Environment) specification.
                 Starting with version 1.60 it also includes ISOLINUX,
                 a program to boot off an ISO 9660 in native
                 "no-emulation" mode.
                 Starting with version 1.65, it additionally includes
                 MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems from
                 nontraditional media like PXE or CD-ROM.
Keywords:       syslinux pxelinux msdos boot loader floppy install
                 network pxe iso9660 cdfs memdisk
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
                 339749 syslinux-1.67.tar.gz
                 379571 syslinux-1.67.zip
Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
Platforms:      DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and nasm 0.97 or
                 later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
End