Changes in 3.71: * Workaround for a VESA BIOS which tries to make DOS system calls(!!) * Simple menu: fix navigation around disabled entries (or at least try to...) * EXTLINUX: proper error message when confused about mount point. * MEMDISK: be smarter about incompletely disabled floppies in the BIOS and about being the only BIOS. * Optionally allow initrd to be specified on a separate line rather than as part of the "append" line. This is not recommended, but apparently makes life easier for some tools. * SYSLINUX: if no config file is present, set the current directory to the root directory (Sebastian Herbszt.) * chain.c32: option "hide" to support hiding and unhiding of primary partitions on the boot drive with DOS, Win, or OS/2 partition types (01, 04, 06, 07, 0b, 0c, 0e). * Unbreak the KBDMAP command (broken in 3.70). * EXTLINUX: fix the handling of the ADV when using CBIOS. * ifcpu64.c32: simple COM32 module to select a 32- or 64-bit kernel (and optionally 32-bit kernels with or without PAE.) Eventually we want a scripting language for this kind of stuff; a Lua module is under development. * Fix parsing of the SERIAL command without a baud rate specified. * chain.c32: error out when try to boot an unbootable partition. * SYSLINUX: when building the Win32 installer, search for MinGW under a large number of possible names. Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 3.71 Entered-date: 2008-07-31 Description: SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3 filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. The FAT filesystem version can be installed from DOS, NT, or Linux. It includes a sophisticated API for add-on "COM32" modules, including a significant subset of the standard C library. It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE or CD-ROM. This version includes gPXE, to allow accessing network files via other protocols than TFTP. Keywords: syslinux pxelinux isolinux extlinux msdos boot loader floppy install network ext2 ext3 pxe iso9660 cdfs memdisk com32 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 3960360 syslinux-3.71.tar.gz 4748867 syslinux-3.71.zip Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.39 or later required to build from source. Copying-policy: GPL End