[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.60-pre4 released

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Dec 14 15:22:40 PST 2007


I have just pushed out SYSLINUX 3.60-pre4.

I have deferred the gPXE integration branch to a later release, since it 
looks like the gPXE folks are stalled on their end.  Highly 
unfortunately, because it's cool stuff.

What I *do* have, however, is support for a small amount of storage in 
the boot loader -- currently only implemented for EXTLINUX, but the 
infrastructure is there for all of them.  This is currently used to 
support boot-once but is also accessible to modules via API functions.

I want to emphasize that this is bleeding edge, emphasis on bleeding, 
and that it does involve writing to the disk, which is new as far as 
SYSLINUX is concerned.  *In particular* I can't promise for sure that 
the code to disable this stuff on non-EXTLINUX derivatives is currently 
working, which means you could have ISOLINUX trying to write to your 
hard disk (highly unlikely, but still...)

	-hpa




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