[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.35 released

[d tbsky]

hi:
   our company use ibm notebooks also.  i had use syslinux+memdisk+usb
keys with ibm notebooks before. but i don't remember what version  i
use.  today i try memdisk version 3.35 and 3.31. and both fail like
you said. howerver pxelinux boots the same image very well under all
kind of ibm notebooks.
  and i can not make syslinux 3.35 work at all. the pxelinux.cfg
loaded and  said  it can not find menu.c32.(although i put menu.c32 in
the root directory). 3.31 works fine here.

Regards,
tbskyd

2007/1/31, Quinn Plattel <qiet72 at gmail.com>:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I have tested version 3.35 memdisk with ms-dos images via usb keys on
> IBM Laptops - still the same result - hangs after saying "Starting
> MS-DOS...".  Dell Laptops work fine with the same setup.  However, the
> grub4dos alternative works fine with the IBM Laptops.
>
> IBM Laptops affected: T23, T30, T40/p, T41/p, T42/p, T43/p, X40,
> X60/s, and T60/p
>
> Quinn
>
> On 1/29/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > SYSLINUX 3.35 is out, come and get it :)  The main new things are
> > subdirectory support in SYSLINUX (FAT) and EDD support in MEMDISK.
> > Special thanks to Tomas M. of slax.org for sponsoring the subdirectory
> > support in SYSLINUX.
> >
> > I have also pushed out 3.40-pre4, which is simply the 3.35 changes
> > merged into the 3.40 branch.
> >
> > Changes in 3.35:
> >          * MEMDISK: New "safeint" mode.
> >          * MEMDISK: Be more compliant with the PnP BIOS spec.
> >          * MEMDISK: Turn on EDD support by default.
> >          * MEMDISK: Try to work on some machines on which it would not
> >            work when there was no floppy drive in the system.
> >          * Simple menu system: fix serial console support (broken in
> >            3.30).
> >          * SYSLINUX: Support subdirectories.  Like ISOLINUX, the
> >            "current directory" is the directory in which syslinux.cfg
> >            is found; this is searched for in the sequence
> >            /boot/syslinux, /syslinux, /.  As a side benefit, label names
> >            like "linux-2.6.18" and "linux-2.6.19" are now supported.
> >
> >            To install ldlinux.sys in a subdirectory, pass the -d
> >            directory option to the SYSLINUX installer.
> >
> >            This work was sponsored by slax.org (thanks, Tomas!)
> >          * New API call: read disk.
> >          * Invoke ONERROR on initrd load failure.
> >
> > Begin3
> > Title:          syslinux
> > Version:        3.31
> > Entered-date:   2007-01-28
> >
> > Description:    SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
> >                  operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3
> >                  filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers
> >                  using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs.  The FAT
> >                  filesystem version can be installed from DOS, NT, or
> >                  Linux.
> >
> >                  It includes a sophisticated API for add-on "COM32"
> >                  modules, including a significant subset of the
> >                  standard C library.
> >
> >                  It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy
> >                  operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE
> >                  or CD-ROM.
> >
> > Keywords:       syslinux pxelinux isolinux extlinux msdos boot loader
> >                  floppy install network ext2 ext3 pxe iso9660 cdfs
> >                  memdisk com32
> > Author:         hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
> > Maintained-by:  hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
> > Primary-site:   ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
> >                  1833237 syslinux-3.35.tar.gz
> >                  2081378 syslinux-3.35.zip
> > Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders
> > Platforms:      DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.38 or
> >                  later required to build from source.
> > Copying-policy: GPL
> > End
> >
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