[syslinux] Planning a 2.08 release

[H. Peter Anvin]

Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
> 
> I dont know if adding that feature (making memdisk force BIOS to choose 
> the last possible drive letter), would help in any situation except the 
> situation I described. Right now, having a 10MB floppy image is more 
> than enough for me.
> 

As I said... unfortunately at least DOS can only boot from either the 
first fd or the first hd.

> BTW, Thanks to the new MEMDISK interrupt, I have one DOS image which 
> does a whole lot of things depending on the arguments it gets. I have 
> implemented an an rc.d style autoexec.bat and that makes things really 
> useful. The key is a program which parses the boot time arguments and 
> sets appropriate environment variables (a simple modification of the 
> sample program which comes with syslinux). This is also available for 
> download (http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~gmurali/gui), in case anyone is 
> interested.
> 
> This feature has reduced the number of DOS images in my CD and hence 
> maintaining them is a lot easier.

:)

	-hpa