[syslinux] Syslinux 5.00-pre6: call it a beta

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Jul 1 09:42:22 PDT 2012


On 07/01/2012 07:54 AM, Helmut Hullen wrote:
>
> Yes - I know.
> But offering the full blown *.iso with 700 MByte may be no good
> solution.
>

700 MB isn't that much anymore.

> Next (possible) problem:
> On my antique Compaq (about 16 years old) the systems comes to the
> "boot" prompt (with the same error message), "<tab>" shows the options,
> but no option/label is accepted.
>
> Ok - 16 years old hardware may be too old.

Well, it *should* work; I don't think that this is the issue here.

> Is there any option/command/... in the "isolinux.cfg" which works with
> syslinux 4.x but not with syslinux 5.x?

I don't think so, but there could be a bug.

	-hpa




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