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* chain: Implement GPT hand-over protocol as documentedShao Miller2010-06-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | When a partition was yielded by a GPT partition iterator, we follow the protocol documented in syslinux/doc/gpt.txt. Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
* chain: Allow booting the Syslinux partition with "fs"Shao Miller2010-06-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | We will now accept an "fs" option which instructs us to chain-load whatever partition we were booted from. Not useful for PXELINUX, for obvious reasons. Can be used in combination with a "file=" option, to boot something other than Syslinux. Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
* chain: A sprinkling of documentationShao Miller2010-06-241-0/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Shao Miller <shao.miller@yrdsb.edu.on.ca>
* NEWS: document mBFT fixsyslinux-3.86-pre4H. Peter Anvin2010-03-301-0/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: document MEMDISK offset fixsyslinux-3.86-pre2H. Peter Anvin2010-03-301-0/+2
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* NEWS: updateH. Peter Anvin2010-03-301-0/+7
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* NEWS, version: update for 3.86syslinux-3.86-pre1H. Peter Anvin2010-03-051-0/+4
| | | | Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: document i915resolution merge.syslinux-3.85-pre12H. Peter Anvin2010-02-161-0/+4
| | | | Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: update for 3.85 releaseH. Peter Anvin2010-02-131-1/+16
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* NEWS: document Grub4DOS chainloadingH. Peter Anvin2010-01-101-0/+2
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* core: Remove the built-in defaultH. Peter Anvin2010-01-061-0/+6
| | | | | | | The built-in default is rarely if ever used anymore and highly confusing to users. Remove it entirely. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS, version: prepare for 3.85H. Peter Anvin2009-12-221-0/+3
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* NEWS: document eltorito.sysH. Peter Anvin2009-12-181-0/+2
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* NEWS: chain.c32 now always returns to text mode.H. Peter Anvin2009-12-181-0/+1
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* NEWS: document chain.c32 -> isolinux.bin additionH. Peter Anvin2009-12-181-0/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: document MENU RESOLUTIONH. Peter Anvin2009-12-071-0/+2
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* NEWS: document mBFTH. Peter Anvin2009-12-071-0/+3
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* NEWS: update for 3.84H. Peter Anvin2009-12-071-1/+10
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* NEWS: merged hdt 0.3.5syslinux-3.84-pre1H. Peter Anvin2009-11-101-0/+1
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* NEWS: document fix for DOS installerH. Peter Anvin2009-11-101-0/+4
| | | | Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: document pxelinux-optionsH. Peter Anvin2009-09-291-0/+7
| | | | Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: update for 3.83H. Peter Anvin2009-08-251-0/+6
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* NEWS: document isohybrid -id fixed.H. Peter Anvin2009-08-031-0/+1
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* NEWS: document Thinkpad fixsyslinux-3.83-pre3H. Peter Anvin2009-07-301-0/+2
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* PXELINUX: allow filenames up to 251 characters longsyslinux-3.83-pre2H. Peter Anvin2009-07-281-0/+1
| | | | | | At least one users really need this, so be nice and provide it... Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: document chain.c32 ISOLINUX fix.syslinux-3.83-pre1H. Peter Anvin2009-07-231-0/+1
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* NEWS: document chainloading fixH. Peter Anvin2009-06-141-0/+2
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* bootsect: zero memory above a chainloaded boot sector/NBPH. Peter Anvin2009-06-141-0/+4
| | | | | | | | Windows RIS has been reported to make inappropriate use of data found in uninitialized memory. To avoid that, clear memory between a chainloaded boot sector or NBP and Free Base Memory. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* PXELINUX: handle OACK packets with extra NULs, cleaner TFTP errorsyslinux-3.82-pre5H. Peter Anvin2009-06-081-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are apparently TFTP servers in the field which will send OACK packets with extra NUL bytes appended at the end. If we find an OACK packet where the only thing left at some point during processing is NULs, then just consider the packet processed. We have reported all TFTP protocol errors as "tsize required", which is definitely not true anymore. Change error code to 0 (undefined) and the error string to "TFTP error". When this code gets converted to C we'll do better. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* simple menu: make ONTIMEOUT work with MENU HIDDENSergey Vlasov2009-06-041-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | The command invoked when no keys were pressed for the specified time (ONTIMEOUT) may be different from the menu item initially selected when the menu is displayed (DEFAULT or MENU DEFAULT). Unfortunately, this did not work together with MENU HIDDEN (which is exactly the case when having a separate ONTIMEOUT command makes the most sense). Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: add changes since 3.81syslinux-3.82-pre1H. Peter Anvin2009-05-311-0/+6
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* altmbr: cap at 439 bytes so the partition select byte followsH. Peter Anvin2009-05-251-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Cap altmbr at 439 bytes, so that the partition select byte is not part of the file. This means that: a) updating the altmbr doesn't clobber the configuration; b) it is easier to simply concatenate the select byte to the file. This also matches gptmbr behavior. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: document altmbr fixH. Peter Anvin2009-05-251-1/+3
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* Don't set the autocr flag on the serial console; clean up crapsyslinux-3.81-pre12H. Peter Anvin2009-05-231-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | libutil would set the autocr flag on the serial console, which really never was any point -- we already do \n -> \r\n conversion explicitly in the serial code. This was always very annoying to deal with if the menu was interrupted. Furthermore, drop completely unnecessary initialization/deinitialization routines that completely duplicated other code. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* Drop support for ACPI 3 E820 extended memory attributesH. Peter Anvin2009-05-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Drop all support for ACPI 3 E820 extended memory attributes. There are BIOSes in the field that report completely bogus information here, resulting in no memory at all being detected (we then fall back to E801 detection, but that is problematic in its own ways.) There is strong reasons to believe at this point that the extended memory attributes are not usable in their current form, so drop them and revert back to simple 20-byte support, including for MEMDISK spoofing. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: update isohybrid changesH. Peter Anvin2009-05-211-0/+4
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* isohybrid: add options, change default ptype to 0x17syslinux-3.81-pre8H. Peter Anvin2009-05-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Add support for setting a variety of options in isohybrid. Also change the default partition type to 0x17, "Windows hidden IFS", as that seems to make Windows less unhappy. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: add note about linux.c32 having a quiet commandH. Peter Anvin2009-05-201-0/+2
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* Try to HLT the processor during idlesyslinux-3.81-pre4H. Peter Anvin2009-05-181-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | Try to HLT the processor during idle. All the events we care about should have interrupts associated with them, except possibly the serial console. Try to deal with the serial console by waiting some time before going into HLT, and giving the user the option of enabling the serial console interrupt, on the assumption that the BIOS will simply IRET. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* NEWS: document linux.c32 fix.syslinux-3.81-pre1H. Peter Anvin2009-05-041-0/+3
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* Next version will probably be 3.81H. Peter Anvin2009-05-041-0/+2
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* NEWS: drop plans for a 3.76 releaseH. Peter Anvin2009-05-041-2/+0
| | | | The aim now is for a 3.80 release instead...
* Document poweroff module.H. Peter Anvin2009-05-041-0/+1
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* NEWS: document isohybrid fixH. Peter Anvin2009-05-011-0/+1
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* Document boot-once fix.H. Peter Anvin2009-04-301-0/+1
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* NEWS: updateH. Peter Anvin2009-04-291-0/+2
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* NEWS: add updates for 3.80H. Peter Anvin2009-04-261-0/+4
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* NEWS, version: prepare for a 3.76 releasesyslinux-3.76-pre1syslinux-3.7xH. Peter Anvin2009-04-251-0/+4
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* NEWS: document HDT PCI fixsyslinux-3.75-pre4H. Peter Anvin2009-04-151-0/+1
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* NEWS: add the latest stuff...syslinux-3.75-pre3H. Peter Anvin2009-04-141-0/+3
| | | | | | Document additional changes since 3.74. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>