[syslinux] Isolinux command line text affected
Sebastian Herbszt
herbszt at gmx.de
Fri May 15 11:22:19 PDT 2009
Михаил wrote:
> Hi. This issue was introduced in isolinux version 3.62.
>
> Best regards, Mike.
This issue is not limited to isolinux and should affect all derivatives.
It only manifests if one of the message files, in your case boot.msg, contains
a graphic. Since commit b2e6d915489d7af1177c75b961438be7cec140f0
("Switch the display file and graphics routines to using the getc stack)" the
command_line buffer is reused for VGARowBuffer in graphics.inc:
; We need a buffer of 640+80 bytes. At this point, command_line should
; not be in use, so use that buffer.
VGARowBuffer equ command_line
The content of command_line gets overwritten and you get garbage displayed
on the boot prompt.
- Sebastian
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