[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.75 released

[H. Peter Anvin]

3.75 is a bug fix release for 3.74.

Changes in 3.75:
        * PXELINUX: fix the "keeppxe" option, which was broken in
          3.74.
        * MEMDISK: correct the extraction of geometry information from
          the MBR of a hard disk image, again broken in 3.74.
        * extlinux(1) man page from Brian Pellin.
        * Simple menu: MENU SAVE is now controllable on a menu-by-menu
          or entry-by-entry basis.
        * gPXELINUX: fix interrupt-disabling bug.
        * HDT: fix lockup on machines with certain PCI configurations.

Changes in 3.74:
        * New UI directive, which allows a more natural way to specify
          a menu system (or not.)  With the UI directive specifying
          the menu system, the DEFAULT directive can be used to select
          the default entry inside the menus.
        * kbdmap.c32: new module to load a new keyboard map
          dynamically.
        * isohybrid: workaround bug in some versions of binutils.
        * Fix issue with the placement of the initrd on some machines.
        * ifcpu64: fix handling of less than three arguments.
        * Fix bug in the shuffle library when dealing with a very
          large number of fragments.
        * Documentation fixes by Vicente Jimenez Aguilar.
        * gPXE updated to version 0.9.7.
        * hdt.c32: Hardware Detection Tool, an interactive hardware
          analyzer module by Erwan Velu.
        * MEMDISK: enable automatic determination of the disk geometry
          for a large floppy disk image if (and only if) it is
          formatted with a FAT filesystem.
        * SYSLINUX: fix the handling of .bss files on FAT12/16.
        * Suppress the Loading ... message if "quiet" is specified on
          the kernel command line.
        * Fix the use of "CONSOLE 0" with menu.c32.
        * Allow COM32 modules to be aware of all memory even in the
          presence of a memory hole.  The "linux.c32" module can be
          used to load a kernel (or memdisk) plus large initrd on
          such a system.
        * MBR: produce alternate MBR variants which force the drive
          number to hd0 (_f variants), or force the drive number to
          hd0 if the Ctrl key is pressed (_c variants.)  Furthermore,
          add an MBR variant (altmbr*.bin) which ignores the active
          flag and instead boots the partition number specified in the
          byte at offset 439 decimal.
        * Add IPAPPEND strings to com32 modules, especially needed for
          linux.c32.
        * New MENU SAVE directive which saves the latest menu
          selection until the next boot.  Currently only implemented for
          EXTLINUX.
        * gfxboot.com: *experimental* interface module to Steffen
          Winterfeldt's "gfxboot" graphical front end
          (http://gfxboot.sourceforge.net/).  Module by Sebastian Herbszt.

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Title:          syslinux
Version:        3.75
Entered-date:   2009-04-16

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.

                This version includes gPXE, to allow accessing network
                files via other protocols than TFTP.

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
                3784220 syslinux-3.75.tar.gz
                4669899 syslinux-3.75.zip
Platforms:      DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.39 or
                later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.