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

Matt Fleming matt at console-pimps.org
Sun Jul 1 14:32:15 PDT 2012


On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 22:23 +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, Matt,
> 
> Du meintest am 01.07.12:
> 
> >>>>    ftp://hullen.hopto.org/ods-v5.4.09.iso
> >>>>    ftp://hullen.hopto.org/ods-5.4.09-md5sum.txt
> 
> >>> Could you try loading libcom32.c32 manually and then vesamenu.c32
> >>> and see what errors are reported?
> >>
> >> May be - I need the steps to do so.
> 
> > At the boot: prompt type,
> 
> > 	1. libcom32.c32
> > 	2. vesamenu.c32
> 
> > and report any error messages that are printed.
> 
> Ok - that's simple enough.
> 
>    libcom32.c32
>       -> no response, only new line with prompt
> 
>    vesamenu.c32
>       -> Undef symbol FAIL: vesacom_set_background

Could you try building your iso image with full 31-character filenames?
I suspect that what's happening is that the ELF loader code that follows
the DT_NEEDED entries is falling foul of the 8-character names.




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