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Offline gmc

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syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« on: June 03, 2013, 06:27:46 PM »
Greetings,

I would like to know how hard it would be to upgrade syslinux in TC 4.7.7?  If it is not too difficult, how is it done?  I have been searching the forum for answers but so far have not found what I need.

Thanks,

Glen
« Last Edit: June 03, 2013, 08:08:59 PM by gmc »

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2013, 06:36:44 PM »
Info for upgrading syslinux.tcz should be found in the info file in Apps for syslinux.tcz

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2013, 08:08:13 PM »
Sorry, I'm not quite following you.  Is Apps a directory or so you mean the Apps Browser?

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2013, 08:18:12 PM »
Hi gmc
The info tab in AppBrowser will show you where the source code for building syslinux came from.

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2013, 08:26:32 PM »
Ah!  That helps.  Thanks - I'm off to do some reading (I reckon I'll be back, though...).

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2013, 09:10:32 PM »
Using binaries from upstream (stable) works for me.
"Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." Niklaus Wirth - A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2013, 09:17:21 PM »
Using binaries from upstream (stable) works for me.
Say waht? 
(Translation: I don't have a clue to what you mean!)

Sorry, it looks like I'm going to be a linux newbie for a long, long time.

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2013, 09:22:46 PM »
Hi gmc
The info tab in AppBrowser will show you where the source code for building syslinux came from.
Yep - I'm back!
I carefully followed the steps in the info comments.  Everything appeared to work properly.  I rebooted and now get the syslinux 4.05 header on boot.  But the next line says:

Could not find kernel image: menu.c32
boot:

So, any idea how I messed up?

Offline coreplayer2

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2013, 09:23:13 PM »
Sorry, yes Apps Browser

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2013, 09:56:30 PM »

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2013, 10:23:31 PM »
I never did anything else than just untar.
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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2013, 10:51:21 PM »
I never did anything else than just untar.

That's too easy!

By the way, did you see my post about what happened when I followed the upgrade steps in the Apps Info page?  It failed.  Can't find kernel: menu.c32.

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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2013, 10:55:49 PM »
i suggest you read upstream documentation (syslinux wiki) about using modules.
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Re: syslinux upgrade for tc4.7.x?
« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2013, 06:38:01 PM »
Could not find kernel image: menu.c32
Simple: you reference menu.c32 (hopefully in a UI directive or under a LABEL clause in either a COM32 or KERNEL directive and hopefully not the DEFAULT directive) and it's not in the same directory as your config.

See also http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Common_Problems#Modules

Official docs in syslinux.tar:doc/ with a refactored AsciiDoc-format of doc/syslinux.txt in syslinux.tar:txt/ (in newer versions).