[syslinux] without msdos filesystem

[H. Peter Anvin]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:44:57PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> BTW ... I have to recompile (make) syslinux each time in order to 
>>> rebuild all binaries, else I get 'Floating point exception' after 
>>> starting ./unix/syslinux. My syslinux doesn't use direct mount.
>> You're getting a division by zero somehow.  Since it goes away on 
>> rebuild it'd be hard to debug, but I might be able to send you a binary 
>> to run under gdb.
> 
> Where are you building the packages?
> 
> Fedora Core 6 had a number of changes that caused its binaries to die
> with 'Floating point exception' if run on older systems. I suspected the
> new DT_GNU_HASH was the cause, but I never tested.
> 

I've been building them on an FC6 system, indeed.  That's very disturbing.

	-hpa