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| author | hpa <hpa> | 2001-12-06 05:33:54 +0000 |
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| committer | hpa <hpa> | 2001-12-06 05:33:54 +0000 |
| commit | 03a8cc27ff84852d1f56206a5ea492fd8b5e7e88 (patch) | |
| tree | e305cf30d5108d5f64bea97b867eb998d3ea98dc | |
| parent | 23044fab271362b43bf037ec6bc19e459f22a87e (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-1.65-pre1.tar.gz | |
Update NEWS file; turn off tracers; add warning about broken BIOSes tosyslinux-1.65-pre1
isolinux.doc.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | isolinux.asm | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | isolinux.doc | 6 |
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ Starting with 1.47, changes marked with SYSLINUX/PXELINUX/ISOLINUX apply to that specific program only; other changes apply to both. +Changes in 1.65: + * ISOLINUX: Support booting disk image files (to boot DOS or + other non-Linux operating systems), *IF* the BIOS works + correctly; unfortunately many BIOSes apparently don't. + Changes in 1.64: * Limited support for hardware flow control when using a serial port console. diff --git a/isolinux.asm b/isolinux.asm index e78d1bd7..5371e8b2 100644 --- a/isolinux.asm +++ b/isolinux.asm @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ ; **************************************************************************** ; Note: The Makefile builds one version with DEBUG_MESSAGES automatically. -%define DEBUG_TRACERS ; Uncomment to get debugging tracers +; %define DEBUG_TRACERS ; Uncomment to get debugging tracers ; %define DEBUG_MESSAGES ; Uncomment to get debugging messages %ifdef DEBUG_TRACERS diff --git a/isolinux.doc b/isolinux.doc index 56ea93fa..cc724808 100644 --- a/isolinux.doc +++ b/isolinux.doc @@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ I would greatly appreciate if you could try out the debugging version ++++ BOOTING DOS (OR OTHER SIMILAR OPERATING SYSTEMS) ++++ +WARNING: This feature depends on BIOS functionality which is +apparently broken in a very large number of BIOSes. Therefore, this +may not work on any particular system. No workaround is possible; if +you find that it doesn't work please complain to your vendor and +indicate that "BIOS INT 13h AX=4C00h fails." + To boot DOS, or other real-mode operating systems (protected-mode operating systems may or may not work correctly), using ISOLINUX, you need to prepare a disk image (usually a floppy image, but a hard disk |