[syslinux] Recovery console doesn't work in chain.c32 3.85or3.86-pre1

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/12/2010 01:24 PM, Shao Miller wrote:
> 
> This split into two subjects in my opinion.  The subject of Gert's 
> report was not specifying the partition to boot whatsoever, but CMLDR 
> wants a partition boot-sector, not the MBR nonsensically patched with 
> "cmdcons" where the OEM string should be.
> 

Ah, right.  "boot" does the MBR, not the booted partition.  Therein lies
the problem.

> Then Gert suggested the reverse-lookup idea for GRLDR and CMLDR, so that 
> one can specify "whatever partition Syslinux is already booted from."
> 
>> although in some way Shao's patch is
>> The Right Thing (and I've said for a long time I'd merge that but I
>> didn't have to write it) I would *really* like a minimal fix for 3.86 as
>> I really want a bug-fix-only release this time.
> 
> In my opinion, my recent chain.c32 patch for the "fs" option is a 
> feature, not a bug.  We already support Recovery Console... If the 
> partition is specified.  86 is an even number...  No new features for 
> even numbers in general?

No, it's nothing of the sort... rather, it's an issue of 3.85 having
been released with regressions, and I really don't like to have the
current official release having known regressions.

	-hpa