3.75 is a bug fix release for 3.74. Changes in 3.75: * PXELINUX: fix the "keeppxe" option, which was broken in 3.74. * MEMDISK: correct the extraction of geometry information from the MBR of a hard disk image, again broken in 3.74. * extlinux(1) man page from Brian Pellin. * Simple menu: MENU SAVE is now controllable on a menu-by-menu or entry-by-entry basis. * gPXELINUX: fix interrupt-disabling bug. * HDT: fix lockup on machines with certain PCI configurations. Changes in 3.74: * New UI directive, which allows a more natural way to specify a menu system (or not.) With the UI directive specifying the menu system, the DEFAULT directive can be used to select the default entry inside the menus. * kbdmap.c32: new module to load a new keyboard map dynamically. * isohybrid: workaround bug in some versions of binutils. * Fix issue with the placement of the initrd on some machines. * ifcpu64: fix handling of less than three arguments. * Fix bug in the shuffle library when dealing with a very large number of fragments. * Documentation fixes by Vicente Jimenez Aguilar. * gPXE updated to version 0.9.7. * hdt.c32: Hardware Detection Tool, an interactive hardware analyzer module by Erwan Velu. * MEMDISK: enable automatic determination of the disk geometry for a large floppy disk image if (and only if) it is formatted with a FAT filesystem. * SYSLINUX: fix the handling of .bss files on FAT12/16. * Suppress the Loading ... message if "quiet" is specified on the kernel command line. * Fix the use of "CONSOLE 0" with menu.c32. * Allow COM32 modules to be aware of all memory even in the presence of a memory hole. The "linux.c32" module can be used to load a kernel (or memdisk) plus large initrd on such a system. * MBR: produce alternate MBR variants which force the drive number to hd0 (_f variants), or force the drive number to hd0 if the Ctrl key is pressed (_c variants.) Furthermore, add an MBR variant (altmbr*.bin) which ignores the active flag and instead boots the partition number specified in the byte at offset 439 decimal. * Add IPAPPEND strings to com32 modules, especially needed for linux.c32. * New MENU SAVE directive which saves the latest menu selection until the next boot. Currently only implemented for EXTLINUX. * gfxboot.com: *experimental* interface module to Steffen Winterfeldt's "gfxboot" graphical front end (http://gfxboot.sourceforge.net/). Module by Sebastian Herbszt. Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 3.75 Entered-date: 2009-04-16 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 3784220 syslinux-3.75.tar.gz 4669899 syslinux-3.75.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