SYSLINUX 2.00 contains a number of bug fixes as well as a new COMBOOT/COM32 API interface which should make it possible to write user interface plugins. Changes in 2.00: * ALL: Add support for "COM32" (32-bit COMBOOT) images. * ALL: Add an API for COMBOOT/COM32 images. See comboot.doc for details. There is a C development environment for COM32 being created; it should be ready at some point in the future. * Fix mbr.asm so that it actually works. * SYSLINUX: The syslinux installer *SHOULD* now be safe to run setuid root. * PXELINUX: Fix bug where PXELINUX would override random chunks of the UNDI code segment! Thanks to Kevin Tran for finding this bug. * ISOLINUX: Fix a bug related to slashes in pathnames. * ISOLINUX: Fix a bug in handling initrds over 128 MB. * ALL: Make the key print out the version; this is to help debugging. * Add a small script, mkdiskimage, to create a DOS-formatted hard disk image using mtools. This may be useful in conjunction with MEMDISK. * ISOLINUX: Search for a /boot/isolinux directory as well as /isolinux. * ALL: Fix a bug related to very long configuration files. * PXELINUX: Work around a NASM bug which would result in no delay before reset if an error occurs. Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 2.00 Entered-date: 2002-10-25 Description: SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates off MS-DOS floppies. 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 ~ 9K DOS program or ~ 18K Linux program to create in the first place. Starting with version 1.46 it also includes PXELINUX, a program to boot off a network server using a boot PROM compatible with the Intel PXE (Pre-Execution Environment) specification. Starting with version 1.60 it also includes ISOLINUX, a program to boot off an ISO 9660 in native "no-emulation" mode. Starting with version 1.65, it additionally 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 345373 syslinux-2.00.tar.gz 406913 syslinux-2.00.zip Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.32 or later required to build from source. Copying-policy: GPL End