[syslinux] SYSLINUX-3.52-pre5: XP BOOTSEC.BIN Bug

[Duke McAllister]

> ----- Original Message -----
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:27:35 -0700
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] SYSLINUX-3.52-pre5: XP BOOTSEC.BIN Bug
> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com>
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> Duke McAllister wrote:
> > I just encountered my only bug w/ the ISOLINUX+VESAMENU 
> > combination from 3.52-pre5.  Updated a *working* CD project w/ 
> > the new ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combo just last week.  Booting my 
> > preferred Linux distro (Slax-6) from my custom CDs work 
> > perfectly, however when I updated a CD project that includes 
> > BartPE/WinPE, BartPE fails to boot w/ 'CDBoot can not boot CD: 
> > error 4" msg.  For the record, the stanza that fails:
> >
> > ####
> > LABEL bartpe
> > MENU DEFAULT
> > MENU LABEL ^BartPE/WinPE
> > TEXT HELP
> > Boot the ultimate power tool for repairing Windows 2K/XP/2K3/Vista....
> > ENDTEXT
> > KERNEL /BOOTSECT.BIN
> > APPEND -
> > ####
> >
> >
> > I realized almost immediately what was wrong and rolled back to 
> > the modules from 3.50 and the boot error went away.  In 
> > anticipation of pos follow-up questions:  did not forget the 
> > -boot-info-table option;  problem isn't media-related as I was 
> > testing under VMWare; generating ISOs w/ UltraISO (reliably for 
> > *many* months now.)
> >
> 
> Interesting... *huge* thanks for the heads-up.  I will look into this.
> 
> Would it be possible to give me access to your CD image?
> 
> 	-hpa
> 

I'd *love* to exc the std ISO is 700MB !  Pairing it down to just the BartPE 
code makes it about 450MB, maybe I could get it down to 270MB w/ tight 7Z-LZMA 
compression.  If you don't mind d/l'g something *that* big, let me know and I'll
try and make a pkg for you to d/l....

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