[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.06 released

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Aug 22 18:42:00 PDT 2003


I have released SYSLINUX 2.06; it's basically identical to 2.06-pre4.

I'm doing this now because the bug fixes are so major and because I am 
not sure I'll be around next week.

	-hpa


2.06 is a bug fix release.

Changes in 2.06:
         * ALL: Fix problem that would occationally cause a
           boot failure, depending on the length of the kernel.
         * ISOLINUX: Fix problem that would occationally cause a
           boot failure, depending on the length of directories.
         * SYSLINUX: Win32 installer now flushes buffers.
         * ppmtolss16: Be fully compliant with the PPM spec;
           actually process comments in the header and odd
           alignments of the various parameters, as well as
           "plain" (not raw) files and PBM and PGM files.
         * PXELINUX: Lower the default MTU to 1472 in order to deal
           with systems with slightly nonstandard MTUs, and PXE
           stacks which don't defragment correctly.  Unfortunately this
           is very hard to test dynamically.

Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        2.06
Entered-date:   2003-08-22
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
                 401889 syslinux-2.06.tar.gz
                 496020 syslinux-2.06.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




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