[syslinux] 3 Bugs in SysLinux -3.86

Gert Hulselmans gerth at zytor.com
Fri Apr 9 17:24:28 PDT 2010


Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> As the first step, I want to thank everybody involved for making a
> majorly useful application!
>
> Second, here are the problems I see:
>
> Bug 1: if DEFAULT is not a tag, but a kernel name, menu.c32 fails loading.
>

Can you post your config file?

> Bug 2: When menu.c32 returns to syslinux (on pressing Esc), the splash
>        screen is not shown;
>

Can you post your config file?

> Bug 3 or a missing feature:
>
>         When grub.exe tries to return control to syslinux, it fails.
> 	This happens when the user choses (in the standard menu.lst of
> 	grub4dos distribution) the entry:
>
> 		title back to dos
> 		quit
>
This grub4dos command is only valid when you launch grub4dos (grub.exe)
from a DOS environment, not when you launch grub.exe as a linux kernel
from a bootloader. This is not a Syslinux bug.

- Gert Hulselmans




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