[syslinux] Planning a 2.08 release

[ganapathy murali krishnan]

Another possibly useful feature for memdisk (though not for ver 2.08):

Accept one more argument, say initrd2 or something like that and "mount" 
that image under B: or X: or whatever. This will allow us to cross the 
size limit of 2.88MB floppies. Ofcourse when I say "mount" I dont expect 
memdisk to mount it, just that set things up so that DOS mounts it there.

Of course, one may say that if we need more than 2.88MB worth of info, 
then one should give a hard disk image to memdisk. But, if I am right (I 
might be wrong here) in such a case, the image will become C:\ (in DOS) 
and the regular hard disk will become D:. Then if one tries to install 
Windows, then the windows drive will be called D: in the final 
installation. This may lead to certain undesirable things. For eg, there 
are still windows software (new ones at that) out there which always 
install to "C:\Program Files" without even checking if windows has been 
installed in C: or D:.

Right now my usage is only 87% of the 2.88MB floppy, so I hope I am not 
forced into the hard disk image route in the near future.

BTW, if I give memdisk a hard disk image, can one make sure that DOS 
recognizes it not as C: but some thing later, i.e. make DOS assign drive 
letters to the regular hard disks first and then assign one to the 
memdisk image?

If I remember correctly, some topic like this did come up some time ago.

- Murali

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It seems that quite a bit of stuff built up very quickly after the 2.07 
> release:
> 
> Changes from 2.07 to 2.08-pre6:
>         * Add new configuration command "ontimeout" to allow timeout
>           to have a different action than just pressing Enter.
>         * Add new configuration command "onerror" to allow a custom
>           command to be executed in case the kernel image is not found.
>         * Fix bugs in the COMBOOT/COM32 command-line parsing.  APPEND
>           now works with COMBOOT/COM32 images.
>         * PXELINUX: Poll for ARP requests while sitting at the
>           prompt.  This makes some boot servers a lot less unhappy.
>         * PXELINUX: Actually free sockets when we get a failure
>           (including file not found.)  This bug would cause us to run
>           out of sockets and thus "go deaf" after a while.
>         * MEMDISK: Add an API to query for the existence of MEMDISK.
>         * SYSLINUX: Fix loading boot sectors (.bs/.bss) from floppy
>           disk.
>         * .c32 is now one of the extensions searched for
>           automatically.
> 
> I have gotten one feature request to have PXELINUX support some kind of 
> server+path syntax (i.e. something like 192.0.2.69:/path/file); I'm not 
> sure if it's better to move -pre6 to release candidate status and hold 
> off on that one (it's a reasonably major change of the internals) or if 
> I should implement it and expect a few more prereleases before final 2.08.
> 
> Also, anything else for 2.08 (unfixed bugs or wanted features) please 
> speak up now...
> 
>     -hpa
> 
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