Syslinux 3.81 is primarily a bug fix release. The main new features are halt-on-idle support and some features to isohybrid, including the ability to boot from an image written to a partition. Changes in 3.81: * Shuffler: fix bug in real-mode entry. This affected a number of modules, probably in relatively unimportant ways, but it completely broke linux.c32. * Improved performance. * Attempt to halt the processor while idle. This can cause bad reponsiveness when using a serial console especially for automated input; if that ends up being a problem, use the new "NOHALT 1" configuration command. * linux.c32 now suppresses all messages if the "quiet" flag is specified. * isohybrid: add a variety of options, and a help message. * ISOLINUX: fix booting in hybrid mode when CBIOS is used. This unfortunately means that the isohybrid handoff protocol has changed, so the isohybrid utility must version-match isolinux.bin. * Drop support for ACPI 3 extended memory flags. * Menu system: don't set the autocr flag on the serial console. * altmbr: fix handling of logical partitions. * altmbr: cap at 439 bytes so the partition select byte isn't part of the file. Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 3.81 Entered-date: 2009-05-29 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 3794892 syslinux-3.81.tar.gz 4699863 syslinux-3.81.zip Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and NASM 0.98.39 or later required to build from source. A future version will require NASM 2.00 or later. Copying-policy: GPL, MIT End