[syslinux] menu.c32 hangs

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 19:11:35 PDT 2011


On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 21:43, Zhang Cheng <stephenpcg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:38, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 21:27, Zhang Cheng <stephenpcg at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 00:32, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:21, Zhang Cheng <stephenpcg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> (snip)
>>>>
>>>> gPXE/iPXE can not natively load a Syslinux 4.xx COM32R module.  You'll
>>>> need to load PXELINUX 4.xx first.
>>>
>>> Thanks! Then, what's the latest version of Syslinux COM32R module that can
>>> be natively loaded by gPXE/iPXE?
>>
>> 3.86
>>
>>> BTW, what changes make iPXE fail to load COM32R module? Are there any
>>> changes in COM32R format? I would like to see if some one are working
>>> on it with iPXE, if not, I would like to take it. It will be much
>>> convenient for iPXE
>>> to load Syslinux COM32R directly.
>>
>> There are a lot of changes and it would require gPXE/iPXE to provide a lot more.
>
> Thanks! Is there any documentation talking about the changes? Or is it
> only available
> for me to find out everything from the mail list archive?

1) doc/com32.txt.  It talks about how it can be loaded differently and
the new API calls.  I believe there's also something about COM32
modules talking with the console.
2) the source code

-- 
-Gene




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