[syslinux] Syslinux 2.10 does not load initrd anymore

[Luis.F.Correia]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:15 AM
> To: Luis.F.Correia
> Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Syslinux 2.10 does not load initrd anymore
> 
> 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?

I guess not, I'm using syslinux.exe under Win32 (xp)

And it is pre3 works, pre4 does not work...


Luis


> 
> 	-hpa
> 
> Index: NEWS
> ===================================================================
> 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
> ===================================================================
> 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;
>