[syslinux-announce] SYSLINUX 3.51 released

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Jun 10 15:56:24 PDT 2007


Since EXTLINUX was broken in 3.50, I have pushed out a 3.51 release.

Changes in 3.51:
        * EXTLINUX: Fix failure to find the configuration file.

Changes in 3.50:
        * New keywords allow the type of file to be specified in the
          configuration file.
        * It is now supported to load a different configuration file
          with the CONFIG keyword.
        * Fix API call 0x0019 (Read Disk.)
        * MENU AUTOBOOT, MENU TABMSG, MENU PASSPROMPT allows
          internationalization of menu messages.
        * A new feature, TEXT HELP, allows the administrator to set
          a multi-line help message for individual selections.
        * Fix API call 0x0012 (Cleanup, shuffle and boot.)
        * New API call "Cleanup, shuffle and boot to flat protected mode"
        * New API call "Cleanup, shuffle and boot to real mode",
          similar to API call 0x0012 but allows arbitrary register setting.
        * Introduce a library interface for loading arbitrary binary
          formats with relatively easily understood code.  See
          the elf.c32 module for an example on how to use it.
        * New module "elf.c32", to load a protected-mode ELF kernel.
        * MBR (old and new): Fix bug in CHS mode when LBA >
          65535*sectors.
        * vesamenu: fix decoding of palettized PNG images.
        * Update the Linux kernel boot protocol.
        * PXELINUX: Press Ctrl-N at the boot prompt to read out the
          network info.
        * Instead of the (non-existent) MAC, use the client identifier
          for networks like Infiniband and Firewire/1394.
        * Add a new INCLUDE command to the core syslinux parser.
        * Allow binding help text to F11 and F12.
        * F-key help now available in the simple menu system.
        * Disabled the polling for ARP during idle.  It is simply too
          slow on some (broken!) PXE stacks.
        * PXELINUX: also try to fetch the config file based on UUID.
        * SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX: New RAID mode (-r) which calls the BIOS
          to load the next device (typically the next drive) on boot
          failure.

Begin3
Title:          syslinux
Version:        3.51
Entered-date:   2007-06-10

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 at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by:  hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site:   ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
                1922454 syslinux-3.51.tar.gz
                2214042 syslinux-3.51.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



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