[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.08 released

[H. Peter Anvin]

It's pretty much the same as 2.08-pre11.

2.08 mostly a collection of minor enhancements.

Changes in 2.08:
        * 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.
        * PXELINUX: RFBG.exe seems to randomly overwrite memory
          location 0x5700.  Thus, don't use it!
        * PXELINUX: Change pathname length max from 63 to 127; change
          max vkernels from 128 to 64.
        * Support Ctrl-U -> kill entire command line input.
        * The "samples" directory contains a (barely at all tested)
          chain loading example, chain.c32, which may be used to
          chainload local floppy disks and hard disks.  Use with
          "chain fdN" or "chain hdN [partition]"; N = 0 for the first
          drive of each type.

Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        2.08
Entered-date:   2003-12-12
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
                431196 Dec 12 14:11 syslinux-2.08.tar.gz
                532278 Dec 12 14:11 syslinux-2.08.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