[syslinux] GFXBoot status

Sebastian Herbszt herbszt at gmx.de
Sun Aug 29 12:46:57 PDT 2010


Gene Cumm wrote:
> It appears that there's something wrong with gfxboot.c32 from Syslinux
> 4.00, 4.01 and 4.02.

gfxboot.c32 didn't change in relevant parts between 3.86 and 4.x.

> When I create an ISO based off of Ubuntu 10.10
> (Maverick Merrkat) Alpha 3 x64 desktop ISO and use the official
> binaries, it has an issue and presents a window-like entity in the
> top-left corner, presumably with error/debug information.

Can you provide me such a broken iso?

> Replacing
> gfxboot.c32 with the one from the Ubuntu ISO, everything works as
> expected.  Compiling from current git head results in the window-like
> entity.  Applying Colin Watson's first uncommitted patch resolves the
> issue.

Unfortunatelly Colin didn't answer my questions yet.

> hpa/maks: When I applied Colin's patches, they all applied cleanly to
> the current head for me.
> 
> -- 
> -Gene

Sebastian




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