[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.35 released

[Quinn Plattel]

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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