[syslinux] Syslinux 2.10 does not load initrd anymore

[H. Peter Anvin]

Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Mission accomplished!
> 
> For me, initrd loading stopped working in 2.10-pre4
> I really hope that you can figure out exactly what changed ;)
> 

WHAT THE HECK...

This is the grand total of the changes between 2.10-pre3 and -pre4:

Are you using the nomtools installer?

	-hpa

Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /home/hpa/cvsroot/syslinux/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.174
retrieving revision 1.175
diff -u -r1.174 -r1.175
--- NEWS        18 May 2004 04:10:58 -0000      1.174
+++ NEWS        28 May 2004 19:03:18 -0000      1.175
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
         * Major menu improvement from Murali Ganapathy.
         * ISOLINUX: Wonderfully sick and brilliant workaround for
           severe bugs in certain Award BIOSes; from Knut Petersen.
+       * SYSLINUX: Fix for the nomtools installed, from Frederic
+         Pasteleurs.

  Changes in 2.09:
         * SYSLINUX: Remove residual setuid crap from
Index: syslinux-nomtools.c
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RCS file: /home/hpa/cvsroot/syslinux/syslinux-nomtools.c,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.4 -r1.5
--- syslinux-nomtools.c 27 Dec 2003 07:12:32 -0000      1.4
+++ syslinux-nomtools.c 28 May 2004 19:03:18 -0000      1.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#ident "$Id: syslinux-nomtools.c,v 1.4 2003/12/27 07:12:32 hpa Exp $"
+#ident "$Id: syslinux-nomtools.c,v 1.5 2004/05/28 19:03:18 hpa Exp $"
  /* 
----------------------------------------------------------------------- *
   *
   *   Copyright 1998-2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@
    off_t offset = 0;            /* -o (offset) option */

    program = argv[0];
+  mypid = getpid();

    device = NULL;