ArchiveOrangemail archive

For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa


syslinux.zytor.com
(List home) (Recent threads) (6 other Zytor lists)

Subscription Options

  • RSS or Atom: Read-only subscription using a browser or aggregator. This is the recommended way if you don't need to send messages to the list. You can learn more about feed syndication and clients here.
  • Conventional: All messages are delivered to your mail address, and you can reply. To subscribe, send an email to the list's subscribe address with "subscribe" in the subject line, or visit the list's homepage here.
  • Moderate traffic list: up to 30 messages per day
  • This list contains about 19,992 messages, beginning Jan 2002
  • 4 messages added yesterday

For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa

February 2007
how to make a shootshot of Bootmenu (3 Replies)
Plaul, Markus — 117039293502 Feb 2007* Hi, can someone tell me how to make a screenshot of the bootmenu (vesamenu) like http://syslinux.zytor.com/screenshots/newmenu... this ? I couldnt fin...
Regression in SYSLINUX 3.35?
Andrew Stuart — 117039633302 Feb 2007 It appears there may be a regression with the keeppxe option and/or the ability to keep the pxe stack available to programs. I have noticed this with ...
SYSLINUX 3.36-pre4: new MBR
H. Peter Anvin — 117063403005 Feb 2007 I have just pushed out SYSLINUX 3.36-pre4; the main difference is a rewritten MBR which can boot from logical partitions. I plan to eventually submit ...
SYSLINUX talk or BOF at the Ottawa Linux Symposium 2007
H. Peter Anvin — 117071304205 Feb 2007 Hi all, I'm thinking of doing a SYSLINUX talk or BOF at the Ottawa Linux Symposium this year. I'm right now trying to figure out which, but I...
Howto create encrypted passwords with the simple menu in pxelinux (1 Reply)
bsnottum at hkskole.no — 117072893306 Feb 2007* Hallo! I am using pxelinux to boot the computers in my network. It works really nice! One thing I have not figured out is how to use encrypted passwor...
Broken file reading for fat16 with 3.35+?
Ram Yalamanchili — 117075700406 Feb 2007 Hello, I noticed after upgrading from 3.20, I haven't been able to get syslinux to boot properly with menu.c32 or mboot.c32 from a USB key. I get ...
Patch: Building syslinux on gcc 4 (5 Replies)
Ram Yalamanchili — 117080535806 Feb 2007* For newer distro's (like ubuntu 6.10, FC5+), syslinux build fails due to gcc 4. Here is a patch to get it to build properly. The only thing it doe...
Syslinux: Broken file reading for fat16 with 3.35+? (8 Replies)
Ram Yalamanchili — 117080849307 Feb 2007* Hello, I noticed after upgrading from 3.20, I haven't been able to get syslinux to boot properly with menu.c32 or mboot.c32 from a USB key. I get ...
Version 3.35 problems with Broadcom BCM5780 chipset (6 Replies)
Ole Holm Nielsen — 117087343307 Feb 2007* I have used the SYSLINUX 3.35 successfully to boot up vesamenu.c32 as well as menu.c32 on an HP Intel PC (Intel 965 chipset) and a few other types of ...
SYSLINUX 3.36-pre6 (release candidate) (3 Replies)
H. Peter Anvin — 117095854708 Feb 2007* I have, hopefully, found and fixed the issue with non-kernel binaries that appeared in 3.35. As a result, I have pushed out 3.36-pre6 and am classifyi...
SYSLINUX 3.36-pre8 (release candidate)
H. Peter Anvin — 117095862208 Feb 2007 I made a really stupid thinko in 3.36-pre7; so I pushed out 3.36-pre8. Boy do I feel dumb this morning... -hpa...
SYSLINUX 3.36-pre7, release candidate (1 Reply)
H. Peter Anvin — 117097145208 Feb 2007* I have pushed out SYSLINUX 3.36-pre7, which should help resolve the PXE chainloading regression. I am going to be out of town starting Sunday, and I w...
syslinux-3.36-pre8 feedback (6 Replies)
Gilles Espinasse — 117101366109 Feb 2007* Tested floppy boot on two machines (one PII 350, one 486DX4) Floppy boot with syslinux is very very slow, more than 18 mn to boot a linux kernel from ...
HP DL380 G2 does not boot off local disk from PXE boot menu (3 Replies)
Yiping Zhang — 117104775709 Feb 2007* Hi, all: I can't make my HP DL380 G2 servers to boot off local disk by using "default local" line in my PXE boot menu. For fully automat...
slow loading after using timeout and vesamenu.c32
Per Jessen — 117112974810 Feb 2007 All, I've been setting up an etherboot-PXE-syslinux environment for booting a number of HP/Compaq servers. Today I was playing around with using v...
SYSLINUX 3.36 released
H. Peter Anvin — 117114232810 Feb 2007 Changes in 3.36: * MEMDISK: Disable EDD by default on floppy disks. EDD can be enabled with the "edd" option and disabled with "noedd...
booting winpe from directory (3 Replies)
Plaul, Markus — 117127031912 Feb 2007* Hi guys, im looking for method booting winpe2.0 or bartpe directly from a directory into ram. Currently im booting from iso images, and its working re...
att syslinux-3.36 nopie patch (3 Replies)
Gilles Espinasse — 117128860912 Feb 2007* I made a patch that depending of gcc flavor add -no-pie or -nopie on libutil and dos Makefile. This fix fatal error like this sha1hash.c: In function ...
syslinux-3.36 and 3.35 compilation broke /dev/null (6 Replies)
Gilles Espinasse — 117129257312 Feb 2007* I have tested with 3.31 (does not broke /dev/null) and 3.35/3.36 that broke /dev/null I verify that /dev/null exist, then compile one of the target av...
Vesamenu Error 131 (1 Reply)
Plaul, Markus — 117129670812 Feb 2007* Hi guys, i encountered a strange problem or bug, i dont really know ive got a panasonic cf-m34 toughbook here, when i boot up the vesamenu.c32 und sel...
syslinux, append initrd Limitations (1 Reply)
Daniel Rindt — 117129679212 Feb 2007* Hello Readers, i try to load via SYSLINUX a initrd file. My syslinux.cfg on a loop device contains the following: == 8< =default linux prompt 1 tim...
Memory upgrade breaks net boot (PXE + NFS Root) (8 Replies)
Alex Still — 117140675513 Feb 2007* Hi list ! A memory upgrade (from 2 to 4Gb) on a bunch of IBM LS21 blades has triggered a very weird behavior. I really can't say if this could be ...
[PXELINUX]A PXE booting question, please (4 Replies)
Eric Tang — 117149739214 Feb 2007* Hi all, I was trying to install Red Hat Linux 7.3 on my computer through network install. I had setup TFTP server and Linux network install server. DH...
floppy problems after DOS booting with dos.bss and syslinux 3.xx
noname — 117155110315 Feb 2007 Hello, I'm Rene living in Germany. I have a problem when I use syslinux versions greater than 3.xx for booting DOS (over dos.bss) and DSL-linux fr...
floppy problems after DOS booting with dos.bss and syslinux 3.xx
noname — 117155115015 Feb 2007 Hello, I'm Rene living in Germany. I have a problem when I use syslinux versions greater than 3.xx for booting DOS (over dos.bss) and DSL-linux fr...
floppy problems after DOS booting with dos.bss and syslinux 3.xx
noname — 117155119115 Feb 2007 Hello, I'm Rene living in Germany. I have a problem when I use syslinux versions greater than 3.xx for booting DOS (over dos.bss) and DSL-linux fr...
Booting PXE inside a Qemu VM
Erwan Velu — 117155395315 Feb 2007 Hey folks, Yesterday night, I did a patch to allow you booting pxe inside a Qemu VM (This patch also works for virtuabox). So on a single host without...
MEMDISK and Doc Memory (2 Replies)
Duke McAllister — 117192455619 Feb 2007* Peter: Just wanted to report yet another happy customer for ISOLINUX. Have been using it successfully for several months as the loader/menu for my boo...
Booting non Linux Os (1 Reply)
Mario Charest — 117216238922 Feb 2007* Hello, I have been trying to use PXELINUX to boot a non Linux OS (QNX6). It works if I set the image to be of type .bs (BOOT SECTOR). However this onl...
gcc_ok fail to detect unrecognized option
Gilles Espinasse — 117217377122 Feb 2007 Even with gcc-4.1.1, gcc does not return an error if an option is not supported It just ouput a message to stderr but does not return a value differen...
Patch: Readconfig wont parse certain options anymore (2 Replies)
Ram Yalamanchili — 117227834024 Feb 2007* com32/modules/readconfig.c: This is a side effect of is_kernel_type() overwrite the current pointer in a loop context. Hence subsequent options aren...
Read disk not working in 3.35+ (8 Replies)
Ram Yalamanchili — 117227841524 Feb 2007* Hey, Looks like read disk function which was launched in 3.35 isnt working. Did anyone test this on any hardware? I'm using it thru the com32 inte...
Disk-On-Chip problem/question (1 Reply)
Joe N. — 117242592225 Feb 2007* Hi all, I've done a lot of searching (on this list and elsewhere) and I'm stuck at a point where I don't know what to try next. I'm tr...
Is there interest in a SYSLINUX BOF at OLS 2007?
H. Peter Anvin — 117246517626 Feb 2007 Hi all, I received no response to the query about a SYSLINUX BOF or presentation at OLS 2007. Technically the deadline has passed, but it is probably ...
Return to prompt after comboot execution (1 Reply)
Remko van der Vossen — 117254463627 Feb 2007* Hello, Is is possible to run a comboot file before the boot message is displayed and after its execution, display the boot message and prompt? Regards...
How to press F1 over a serial console?
Richard L. James — 117258502527 Feb 2007 Hi, Just realised a problem. If you have already booted into PXELINUX etc then you will already be past the point where F1 is still valid since the BI...
Config-file-switching code in syslinux-3.40-pre7 worth testing out
H. Peter Anvin — 117264130428 Feb 2007 Hi all, Being able to switch between config files has been a long-requested feature. Well, in syslinux-3.40-pre7 I think it's finally implemented ...

Home | About | Privacy