[syslinux] Some patches from mageia

Sebastian Herbszt herbszt at gmx.de
Thu Dec 10 14:15:56 PST 2015


Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Erwan Velu via Syslinux
> <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > As per Ady request (thanks for the reminder), I forgot to send the patches
> > I run in Mageia.
> >
> > There is two of them :
> >
> > One is making errors in parsing modules.alias not fatal.
> >
> > The other one is adding an option to chain to avoid reading garbage on the
> > command line.
> > I had some issues with gfxboot and had to implement that. I know it's a
> > workaround, I don't really get if that's useful for others. You can forget
> > it if you consider it as too weird.
> 
> This almost sounds like a global APPEND was used.  Current Syslinux
> should ignore the global APPEND for COM32 use but other config parsers
> like (vesa)menu.c32 and gfxboot.c32 might not as they don't call by
> LABEL but execute plain commands.

How can I reproduce this issue?

Sebastian


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