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

[Gene Cumm]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Helmut Hullen <Hullen at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hallo, H. Peter,
>
> Du meintest am 01.07.12:
>
>>> Who or what produces the "vesacom_set_background" error message?
>>>
>>> I'd prefer working with "vesamenu" instead of pure CLI ...
>
>> The error comes from the module loader not finding a module it
>> requires.   It is very hard to know based on the information you have
>> given why the module isn't being found, so again, any help (including
>> posting the ..iso) would be extremely helpful.
>
> Yes - I know.
> But offering the full blown *.iso with 700 MByte may be no good
> solution.

Personally, I have no issue with bandwidth but do for someplace to
post such an image.

> ...
> Menu "isolinux.cfg" (slightly shortened):

Sometimes shortening will hide the issue.

> ...
> include colors.txt

If this file is intended to only tune (vesa)menu.c32, you can always
use 'MENU INCLUDE colors.txt' instead.

> ...
> label local
>   MENU LABEL Booten von der 1. Festplatte
> #  localboot 0x80
>   kernel chain.c32
>   APPEND hd0
>
> MENU END

Nothing visibly wrong in the config.  Does the local LABEL actually
work?  That's a sign of if things which chain.c32 depends can load
properly.

> #
> -------------------dir <CD>/isolinux --------------------------
>
> total 25300

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    26034 30. Jun 18:26 chain.c32

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      572  9. Jul 2010  colors-alt.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      840 24. Jul 2010  colors-clonezilla.txt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      570  4. Feb 10:36 colors.txt

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     4340 30. Jun 18:26 elf.c32

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    36864 30. Jun 18:26 isolinux.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1991  4. Feb 10:34 isolinux.cfg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    36864 30. Jun 18:26 isolinux-debug.bin

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   458683 30. Jun 18:26 ldlinux.c32
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   796328 30. Jun 18:26 libcom32.c32
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   258116 30. Jun 18:26 libcom32gpl.c32
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   132786 30. Jun 18:26 liblua.c32
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    29322 30. Jun 18:26 libutil_com.c32
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     4565 30. Jun 18:26 linux.c32
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------

Looks OK.  I presume the ISO build (ie mkisofs/genisoimage) bootable
parameter points to the above isolinux.bin and that there are no other
recognized config files floating around that may be playing games.
Also, knowing the ISO build command may be useful.

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

There should not be.

> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut

-- 
-Gene