2.08 mostly a collection of minor enhancements. Changes in 2.08: * Add new configuration command "ontimeout" to allow timeout to have a different action than just pressing Enter. * Add new configuration command "onerror" to allow a custom command to be executed in case the kernel image is not found. * Fix bugs in the COMBOOT/COM32 command-line parsing. APPEND now works with COMBOOT/COM32 images. * PXELINUX: Poll for ARP requests while sitting at the prompt. This makes some boot servers a lot less unhappy. * PXELINUX: Actually free sockets when we get a failure (including file not found.) This bug would cause us to run out of sockets and thus "go deaf" after a while. * MEMDISK: Add an API to query for the existence of MEMDISK. * SYSLINUX: Fix loading boot sectors (.bs/.bss) from floppy disk. * .c32 is now one of the extensions searched for automatically. * PXELINUX: RFBG.exe seems to randomly overwrite memory location 0x5700. Thus, don't use it! * PXELINUX: Change pathname length max from 63 to 127; change max vkernels from 128 to 64. * Support Ctrl-U -> kill entire command line input. * The "samples" directory contains a (barely at all tested) chain loading example, chain.c32, which may be used to chainload local floppy disks and hard disks. Use with "chain fdN" or "chain hdN [partition]"; N = 0 for the first drive of each type. Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 2.08 Entered-date: 2003-12-12 Description: SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux operating system which operates off MS-DOS floppies, network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. It is intended to simplify first-time installation of Linux, rescue disks, and other uses for boot floppies. A SYSLINUX floppy can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once it has been created; and requires only a very small DOS or Linux program to create in the first place. It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE or CD-ROM. Keywords: syslinux pxelinux isolinux msdos boot loader floppy install network pxe iso9660 cdfs memdisk 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 431196 Dec 12 14:11 syslinux-2.08.tar.gz 532278 Dec 12 14:11 syslinux-2.08.zip Alternate-site: ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.35 or later required to build from source. Copying-policy: GPL End