[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.09-pre2: release candidate

[H. Peter Anvin]

Peter Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 22:55 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>It appears that increasing the command line limit to 1023 caused the 
>>.bss memory area to overflow.  Unfortunately NASM didn't detect this as 
>>it ought to have and therefore I didn't catch it as an error.
>>
>>I have dropped the command line limit to 511 characters and released it 
>>as 3.09-pre2.  This is a release candidate; please test it out and if it 
>>works I'll make it 3.09.
> 
> 
> Works for me on:
> 
> Pentium M (ICH4 chipset on IBM t41)
> P4/em64t (ICH6/i915 intel box) (the box that broke with 3.08)
> P4/em64t (ICH7/i955X intel box)
> Opteron (VIA VT8385 / K8T800)
> Dual Opteron (nVidia CK804 on an HP xw9300)
> VMware 5 (obviously fake, but good to know)
> 
> I can probably hunt down more boxes to test on if you'd like, but
> they'll largely be similar to the above set.

Thanks.  I think this is worthwhile to push out based on the positive 
reports I've gotten so far.

Should be out soon.

	-hpa