[syslinux] isolinux problem: recent kernel versions vs. old hardware

[H. Peter Anvin]

William Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:56:23AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> William Thompson wrote:
>>> FYI: I've noticed that vesamenu falls back to text mode on some more recent
>>> machines.
>>>
>>> Several Dell PCs (Off the top of my head, the dimension L series, ie L866r
>>> and optiplex gx50 IIRC) do not show the graphics.
>>>
>> Could you run "vesainfo.c32" on those machines and let me know what it 
>> prints?
> 
> Sure.
> 
> I've attached the image.  I didn't want to type all that (nor make mistakes
> in doing so)
> 
> The machine is a Dell Dimension L866r.  I just upgraded my syslinux to 3.61
> (from debian sid)
> 

Well, I implemented support for this, and I would appreciate if you 
could test it out.  It is in syslinux-3.62-pre4.

	-hpa