[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.04 released

[H. Peter Anvin]

I have released SYSLINUX 2.04, mostly to address the 2.03 MEMDISK bug.
At the same time I'm getting the PXELINUX blksize and SYSLINUX installer
changes out there, which hopefully is a good thing.

New release mostly to address the MEMDISK corruption issue.

Changes in 2.04:
        * ALL: Reclaim even more low memory by observing that
          comboot_seg == real_mode_seg is perfectly fine, and by the
          fact that the 1000h segment managed to get unused in all
          derivatives...
        * PXELINUX: Attempt to negotiate full Ethernet-sized blocks
          (1468 bytes) using the blksize option.
        * SYSLINUX: Resurrect the old no-mtools version of the
          installer, although as a root-only tool.  Some distributors
          have indicated that they need a small standalone installer.
        * MEMDISK: Fix a memory offset computation error when
          installing compressed disks which generally would cause
          1 MB of memory to be wasted.
        * MEMDISK: Fix installing the E820 memory map.  Calling
          INT 15h AX=0E820h with MEMDISK 2.03 loaded would give a
          completely corrupt memory map.
        * SYSLINUX: Make libsyslinux a dynamic library, so that it can
          be updated separately from client programs.  The whole idea,
          after all, is to enable alternate programs to become
          syslinux installers.
        * Include an rpm spec file in the distribution, so rpmbuild
          -ta works.

Changes in 2.03:
        * Actually support comment lines in the configuration file.
        * PXELINUX: Try to resolve some problems with stack switches.
        * PXELINUX: Handle PXE stacks with broken routing.
          With these workarounds, the remote install PXE boot floppy
          (rbfg.exe) from Argon Technologies should work correctly.
        * Fix problems with Perl scripts in UTF-8 locales.
        * You probably need NASM 0.98.34 or later to compile this
          version.  0.98.36 is recommended.
        * MEMDISK: Now supports gzip compressed images.

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Title:          syslinux
Version:        2.04
Entered-date:   2003-04-16
Description:    SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
                operating system which operates off MS-DOS floppies,
                network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs.
                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 very small DOS or Linux program to
                create in the first place.  It also 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
                387735 syslinux-2.04.tar.gz
                473179 syslinux-2.04.zip
Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
Platforms:      DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.35
		or later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
End