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

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 15:04:18 PDT 2012


On Jun 29, 2012 5:16 PM, "Helmut Hullen" <Hullen at t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Hallo, H. Peter,
>
> Du meintest am 29.06.12:
>
> >> Booting with the CD (isolinux):
> >>
> >>   ISOLINUX 5.00 ...
> >>   Undef symbol FAIL: vesacom_set_background
> >>   boot:
> >>
> >> The vesa menu is not shown, but <tab> shows the options, and then
> >> booting goes on.
> >>
> >> Who or what produces the error message? Which files should I show or
> >> change?
>
>
> > Any way you could share your .iso and/or recipe for it just to have
> > for our tests?
>
> It's full blown, about 700 MByte ...
> (I could strip all parts which are needed after the boot menu ...)
>
> > Make sure you have the library .c32 modules installed.  In
> > particular, I suspect you either don't have libcom32.c32 or don't
> > have ldlinux.c32 in your system...
>
>
>  <http://arktur.shuttle.de/CD/Testpakete/syslinux-5.00-pre6-i486-1hln.txz>
>
> "/usr/lib" and "/usr/include" are empty - is that the problem?
>
> -----------------
>
> Compile script (based on the syslinux.SlackBuild scripts)

> I know: that's not the syslinux.spec script from your package. But I
> prefer using the slackware tools as long as possible.

Where's your ISO build script?  Could you verify that libcom32.c32,
ldlinux.c32, and isolinux.bin exist (probably in the same directory) in
your ISO?  I believe HPA is trying to suggest this.

--Gene



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