Changes in 3.70: * PXELINUX: Support enhanced capabilities when running on top of gPXE (http://www.etherboot.org/). In particular, support URL-style syntax for filenames, and any protocol that gPXE supports (except, currently, iSCSI and AoE.) This feature is currently highly experimental. * Substantial infrastructure changes to support files whose length aren't known at open time (typically network connections.) Please note that the semantics of some of the comboot APIs have changed slightly; please see doc/comboot.txt. * PXELINUX: We no longer require a TFTP server which supports the tsize option for all transfers. * PXELINUX: Integrate with the gPXE source base; unified image now included as "gpxelinux.0". * The source tree has been restructured; files that were previously in the root have moved into the core, dos, gpxe, and utils directories. * "make install", "make netinstall", and "make extbootinstall" have been updated massively. "make install-all" now installs all three. * Change default dir for auxiliary files from /usr/lib/syslinux to /usr/share/syslinux. * SYSLINUX: VFAT long filename support. * MEMDISK: Any image less than 4096K (4 MB) is treated as a floppy disk. The geometry-guessing code will recognize all common extended formats, but it is still possible some very exotic formats need geometry specification. Large floppies and very small harddisks still need explicit specification. * chain.c32: option "swap" to support swapping of BIOS drive numbers. This is necessary to boot certain operating systems (DOS, Windows) from a secondary drive. * chain.c32: option "file=" to support loading a boot file from the SYSLINUX filesystem instead of loading the boot sector from the drive. * chain.c32: option "seg=" to control the load location. * chain.c32: option "ntldr=" as a shorthand for "seg=0x2000 file="; use this to load one of WinNT's loaders: chain.c32 hd0 1 ntldr=/MiniNT/setupldr.bin Note that the file needs to be in the SYSLINUX filesystem. * chain.32: options "freedos=" and "msdos="/"pcdos=" as shorthands for "seg=0x60 file=" and "seg=0x70 file=" respectively; use this to load FreeDOS's kernel.sys, MS-DOS's io.sys or PC-DOS's ibmbio.sys. * Change to the A20 algorithm which *MIGHT* help systems that have systems which freeze when Syslinux is used with USB keyboards. Note that this has been hard do verify, so I would greatly appreciate feedback on it. * Complex menu system: unbreak menus which has unnamed submenus, like complex.c. * Fix newline on the serial port for some com32 modules. * chain.c32: support "boot" as the drive specification, indicating the drive from which it was booted (for syslinux/extlinux). Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 3.70 Entered-date: 2008-06-30 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 3954517 syslinux-3.63.tar.gz 4739459 syslinux-3.63.zip Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.39 or later required to build from source. Copying-policy: GPL End