[syslinux] Regressions in syslinux 3.71

[H. Peter Anvin]

Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>>>  * isolinux fails to boot on MacBooks, see #412682
>>>    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412682
>> I could not find version 3.63 being mentioned as working in this report.
>> Did i miss something?
> 
> 3.31 (etch) does definitely work, and 3.71 (sid/lenny) definitely doesn't.
> 
>>>  * isolinux sort of hangs when beeing run in qemu, see #496869
>>>    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496869
>> I tried to reproduce it with qemu r5116, latest bochs bios and
>> debian-40r4a-i386-businesscard.iso but it did work as expected.
>> Full "Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot:" message printed.
> 
> etch (debian-4.0r4a*) images are using syslinux version 3.31, which work.
> 
> current lenny images are using syslinux version 3.63, which work too.
> 
> current lenny live images are using syslinux version 3.71, which don't work.
> 
> [ for unrelated reasons, the installer media do, rather than the live
> media,  not use syslinux out of the normal debian repository, but embedd
> their copy into the build-tool (debian-cd), and thus are always lacking
> behind. ]
> 

For all regressions, it would be most helpful if you could narrow it 
down at least to an individual prerelease; even better of course would 
be a "git bisect".

	-hpa