syslinux update request

[bmarkus]

@bmarkus, is there some specific reason(feature/bug) to update? Syslinux is very touchy as I have had newer versions break documented funtionality. If there were good reasons to update, great. Just as long as it doesn't break anything.

I'm not the maintainer of syslinux.tcz Provide details exactly what is wrong with the current upstream version.

[Juanito]

I just double-checked this again on a usb stick I wiped clean with fdisk and formatted ext2.

Using syslinux-4.05 and the core-4.2.iso, I see "-i" is now required (info file updated accordingly), but otherwise things work as per the info file example, i.e. :

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$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux
$ sudo extlinux -i /mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux
$ sudo cp /path-to-file/isolinux.cfg /mnt/sda1/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf

..and then:

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$ sudo cp /path-to-file/core.gz /mnt/sda1/boot
$ sudo cp /path-to-file/vmlinuz /mnt/sda1/boot
..and things work without even needing to edit extlinux.conf

[coreplayer2]

cool thanks

I think after reading the info file I was not expecting to install to another location which clearly lead to some confusion..  sorry

Works great though, but really need do inject it into the Core-current.iso    that would be really helpful

[curaga]

Oh, that's easy: just replace the isolinux.bin file and recreate the iso with mkisofs.

[coreplayer2]

Really?  as easy as using the isolinux.bin from tmp/tcloop/syslinux/usr/local/share/syslinux/  ?  that's just too easy lol

Thanks
Will give it a test drive asap

[genec]

@tweetyhack, I'm sure myself and others on the Syslinux mailing list would love to hear when things break.  At the moment, I'm trying to finish up a new COM32 module to resolve an issue with some NBPs and looking at expanding debug data to diagnose two more issues in PXELINUX, one that I'm experiencing and another that another user is seeing.