Changes in 1.42: * Frob the "fast A20 gate" port as well as the keyboard controller; will this help systems with problems? * Be even more paranoid about A20, unfortunately even this seems to be not paranoid enough... what I don't understand is that if there is hardware out there *this broken*, how can it run Linux at all? Report an error message rather than hang forever if A20 is stuck. * Include some intermediate files in the distribution, plus provide a "make installer" target for distributors to relink the install programs only. I would prefer the syslinux boot loader proper to be "binary clean" for debuggablity -- use "make clean ; make installer" to rebuild the installers only. Begin3 Title: syslinux Version: 1.42 Entered-date: 05DEC98 Description: SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates off MS-DOS floppies. 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 ~ 7K DOS program or ~ 13K Linux program to create in the first place. Keywords: syslinux msdos boot loader floppy install 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 132943 syslinux-1.42.tar.gz 150198 syslinux-1.42.zip Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders Platforms: DOS or Linux to install. Linux, perl and nasm 0.97 or later required to build from source. Copying-policy: GPL End