New release mostly to address the MEMDISK corruption issue. Changes in 2.04: * ALL: Reclaim even more low memory by observing that comboot_seg == real_mode_seg is perfectly fine, and by the fact that the 1000h segment managed to get unused in all derivatives... * PXELINUX: Attempt to negotiate full Ethernet-sized blocks (1468 bytes) using the blksize option. * SYSLINUX: Resurrect the old no-mtools version of the installer, although as a root-only tool. Some distributors have indicated that they need a small standalone installer. * MEMDISK: Fix a memory offset computation error when installing compressed disks which generally would cause 1 MB of memory to be wasted. * MEMDISK: Fix installing the E820 memory map. Calling INT 15h AX=0E820h with MEMDISK 2.03 loaded would give a completely corrupt memory map. * SYSLINUX: Make libsyslinux a dynamic library, so that it can be updated separately from client programs. The whole idea, after all, is to enable alternate programs to become syslinux installers. * Include an rpm spec file in the distribution, so rpmbuild -ta works. Changes in 2.03: * Actually support comment lines in the configuration file. * PXELINUX: Try to resolve some problems with stack switches. * PXELINUX: Handle PXE stacks with broken routing. With these workarounds, the remote install PXE boot floppy (rbfg.exe) from Argon Technologies should work correctly. * Fix problems with Perl scripts in UTF-8 locales. * You probably need NASM 0.98.34 or later to compile this version. 0.98.36 is recommended. * MEMDISK: Now supports gzip compressed images. Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 2.04 Entered-date: 2003-04-16 Description: SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux operating system which operates off MS-DOS floppies, network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. It is intended to simplify first-time installation of Linux, rescue disks, and other uses for boot floppies. A SYSLINUX floppy can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once it has been created; and requires only a very small DOS or Linux program to create in the first place. It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE or CD-ROM. Keywords: syslinux pxelinux msdos boot loader floppy install network pxe iso9660 cdfs memdisk Author: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Maintained-by: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Primary-site: ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux 387735 syslinux-2.04.tar.gz 473179 syslinux-2.04.zip Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.35 or later required to build from source. Copying-policy: GPL End