Changes in 3.11: * MEMDISK: Fix bug by which accessing the real floppy disk as B: in MS-DOS was broken. * Simple menu system: allow tweaking of the screen layout. * Simple menu system: better command-line editing, correctly handle command lines above 256 characters. * PXELINUX: revert memory allocation change that caused problems on some network cards. * MEMDISK: Try work around a bug on some BIOSes when no physical floppy disk is present in the system. * Enable the 16550A FIFOs, if present, when doing serial console. * New "totaltimeout" command establishes a timeout without regard for any user input. * Simple menu system: timeout behaviour now more in line with user expectations. Changes in 3.10: * gcc 4.0.1 compilation fixes. * Add support for querying the PCI BIOS in libcom32 (used by ethersel et al.) * Fix PCI handing (ethersel etc) on several old chipsets (and VMWare.) * Try to deal with systems with broken EBIOS. * New API call to do "localboot". * New API call to query features. * New API call to run kernel image, a lower-level call than "run command". See comboot.doc. * Fix for bug in EBIOS code discovered by Arwin Vosselman. * NOESCAPE security fix. * Comments are now recognized even without a space following #. * Fix incorrect handling of mixes of entries with and without MENU PASSWD. * The idle API call now harmlessly returns failure if it is a no-op. That way the caller can decide whether or not to bother invoking it again. * Temporarily disable the idle API call on PXELINUX, due to some platforms on which the idle API call seems to hang; this problem has not yet been debugged. * MEMDISK: the handling of DOSEMU-headered images was broken; fix it. * EXTLINUX: symlinks are now supported. * Simple menu system: N and P now work correctly as hotkeys. * MEMDISK: more BIOS bug workarounds. Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 3.11 Entered-date: 2005-09-02 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. 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 1510587 syslinux-3.11.tar.gz 1712922 syslinux-3.11.zip Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.38 or later required to build from source. Copying-policy: GPL End