Changes in 3.36: * MEMDISK: Disable EDD by default on floppy disks. EDD can be enabled with the "edd" option and disabled with "noedd". This (hopefully) should make Ghost work again. * SYSLINUX: "unix" installer now uses Linux ioctls instead of using libfat. * New MBR which can boot from logical partitions. * SYSLINUX: Fix bug in detecting special extensions which was introduced in 3.35 :( * PXELINUX: Unbreak chainbooting FreeBSD (and possibly others.) Changes in 3.35: * MEMDISK: New "safeint" mode. * MEMDISK: Be more compliant with the PnP BIOS spec. * MEMDISK: Turn on EDD support by default. * MEMDISK: Try to work on some machines on which it would not work when there was no floppy drive in the system. * Simple menu system: fix serial console support (broken in 3.30). * SYSLINUX: Support subdirectories. Like ISOLINUX, the "current directory" is the directory in which syslinux.cfg is found; this is searched for in the sequence /boot/syslinux, /syslinux, /. As a side benefit, label names like "linux-2.6.18" and "linux-2.6.19" are now supported. To install ldlinux.sys in a subdirectory, pass the -d directory option to the SYSLINUX installer. This work was sponsored by slax.org (thanks, Tomas!) * New API call: read disk. * Invoke ONERROR on initrd load failure. Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 3.36 Entered-date: 2007-02-10 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 1843203 syslinux-3.36.tar.gz 2095254 syslinux-3.36.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