H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:26:49 +0000 (17:26 -0700)]
Document MEMDISK fixes.
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:00:45 +0000 (16:00 -0700)]
Add the actual zeroregs file; missing from a previous checkin.
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:31:09 +0000 (15:31 -0700)]
Add syslinux_reboot()
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:30:55 +0000 (15:30 -0700)]
com32: add a common zero-register structure
When we don't have any registers to pass, it's convenient to be able
to share a common all-zero structure.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:51:27 +0000 (17:51 -0700)]
MBR: shave off another byte
Yet another byte bites the dust...
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:44:18 +0000 (17:44 -0700)]
MBR: shave off another byte
Shave off another byte by using the not-frequently-used jmpw *%sp
instruction!
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:39:55 +0000 (17:39 -0700)]
MBR: one more comment
Comments are good...
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:37:00 +0000 (17:37 -0700)]
MBR: shave another ~4 bytes through an ugly error message hack
Use the "return address points to data" trick to shave a few bytes off
the generation of error messages.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:25:59 +0000 (17:25 -0700)]
MBR: add HLT to prevent system from melting on failure
In case we hit the death loop, put HLT in it. It's probably superfluous,
but it can't hurt, and we can always take it out to reclaim the space.
Arguable the death loop is superfluous at all, since int $0x18 should
never return.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:23:11 +0000 (17:23 -0700)]
MBR: add CR LF to the end of messages
Six bytes down the drain, but people do expect it. If it becomes
an issue we can remove the period; it's better than the CR LF. There
might be some way to efficiently issue . \r \n in common code, too.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:20:59 +0000 (17:20 -0700)]
MBR: shave 2 more bytes
We always re-read the last partition table on any kind of error, so
no need to prevent the code from clobbering it on failure.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:51:46 +0000 (16:51 -0700)]
MBR: Don't clobber %eax before entering CBIOS code
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:45:27 +0000 (16:45 -0700)]
MBR: always do setup for EBIOS, makes stack handling easier and saves jmp
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:41:52 +0000 (16:41 -0700)]
MBR: Handle the stack in read_sector correctly...
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:39:25 +0000 (16:39 -0700)]
One more MBR byte
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:38:30 +0000 (16:38 -0700)]
Another 12 bytes shaved off the MBR...
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:22:46 +0000 (16:22 -0700)]
Another 2 bytes off the MBR.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:14:07 +0000 (16:14 -0700)]
Add some comments to the MBR
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:11:36 +0000 (16:11 -0700)]
Another 3 bytes or so off the MBR...
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:46:52 +0000 (15:46 -0700)]
One more MBR byte...
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:45:49 +0000 (15:45 -0700)]
Shave two more bytes off the MBR
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:40:44 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
MBR: fix pointer to partition table base
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:31:04 +0000 (15:31 -0700)]
Shave another byte off the MBR
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:21:54 +0000 (15:21 -0700)]
Shave an additional ~7 bytes off the MBR
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:04:31 +0000 (15:04 -0700)]
Shave a byte off the MBR code.
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 9 Jul 2007 04:46:58 +0000 (21:46 -0700)]
MEMDISK: Try for better EDD compliance
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 7 Jul 2007 00:29:23 +0000 (17:29 -0700)]
Document giving the disk a signature.
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 7 Jul 2007 00:28:50 +0000 (17:28 -0700)]
mkdiskimage: give the disk image an MBR signature
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:15:17 +0000 (11:15 -0400)]
Forgot to add our own drive to the drive count!
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:43:31 +0000 (18:43 -0400)]
Disable vmware workaround until bug report has been substantiated
The original reporter is being evasive, and claims the workaround doesn't
work anyway.
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:37:41 +0000 (12:37 -0400)]
PXELINUX: if siaddr isn't set, fall back to server identity
If the siaddr field in the DHCP header isn't set, fall back to the
server identity option. This seems to match the behaviour of the PXE
stacks, and some (braindead) DHCP servers don't allow the server
identity to be set.
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:41:16 +0000 (15:41 -0700)]
chain.c32: add support for searching for an MBR signature at runtime.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:12:57 +0000 (18:12 -0700)]
Next version is 3.52
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:12:44 +0000 (18:12 -0700)]
Document changes since 3.51
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:12:18 +0000 (18:12 -0700)]
Alignment fix when loading multiple kernels.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:43:55 +0000 (17:43 -0700)]
Move most messages into the appropriate .inc files
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:24:10 +0000 (17:24 -0700)]
Don't print multiple newlines after initrd...
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:08:23 +0000 (17:08 -0700)]
Workaround for VMware console bug; make more common code common
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:29:35 +0000 (22:29 -0700)]
Simple menu: F-key config was accidentally case sensitive
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:43:46 +0000 (12:43 -0700)]
Begin version 3.51
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:42:53 +0000 (12:42 -0700)]
extlinux: "open" takes a mangled pointer in DS:DI
"open" takes a mangled filename, and as is usual with mangled names, it is
pointed to by DI, not SI.
H. Peter Anvin [Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:34:30 +0000 (12:34 -0700)]
lstadjust: handle struc/endstruc correctly
struc/endstruc effectively push/pop the context around them.
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 9 Jun 2007 23:54:08 +0000 (16:54 -0700)]
Add missing documentation of RAID mode.
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:13:51 +0000 (17:13 -0700)]
Show list file addresses in absolute
Small Perl script to postprocess the listfile and show absolute addresses
instead of section-relative. This only applies to the main address, not
to addresses in bracketed fields.
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 8 Jun 2007 22:43:24 +0000 (15:43 -0700)]
Use strcpy to copy MACStr
We were using an open-coded string copy with the wrong length. Use
strcpy instead.
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 8 Jun 2007 22:30:22 +0000 (15:30 -0700)]
Capture the UUID from packet 1 (request)
Make sure we capture only the first instance of the UUID, in case
the server does something silly like send back its own UUID.
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 8 Jun 2007 22:25:27 +0000 (15:25 -0700)]
Lower case seems to be more common for UUID
From a brief look around the Internet, it seems UUID is more commonly
written in lower case (still with the funny dash pattern, though.) Stick
with that convention.
Also, unify upper-vs-lower-case hexadecimal string production.
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 8 Jun 2007 22:17:01 +0000 (15:17 -0700)]
Generate config file name based on the UUID
- Generate a config file name based on the UUID as well as previous types;
- Get better about picking up client identifier option;
- Clean up config file name generation.
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 8 Jun 2007 04:45:33 +0000 (21:45 -0700)]
Sanitize handling of client identifier option
The first byte of the client identifier is the identifier type.
Look at that one first and only copy if it matches the hardware ARP type.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 7 Jun 2007 23:16:30 +0000 (16:16 -0700)]
Fix the INT 18h patch offset for the RAID mode (-r) option
The calculation of the INT 18h patch offset for RAID mode (-r) was
incorrect. Fix it.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 6 Jun 2007 05:48:15 +0000 (22:48 -0700)]
Stealth whitespace cleanup
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:48:43 +0000 (18:48 -0700)]
vesacon_set_background: Need "volatile" asm
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:41:50 +0000 (18:41 -0700)]
Allow a flat color to be specified as a background.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:18:50 +0000 (18:18 -0700)]
Not all terminals home the cursor on CSI 2 J
Not all terminals home the cursor on CSI 2 J, so send
CSI 2 J CSI H.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:18:02 +0000 (18:18 -0700)]
Unify hexval functions; fix % in printf string
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 6 Jun 2007 01:11:37 +0000 (18:11 -0700)]
Clarify that the background is always an image file
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:08:01 +0000 (14:08 -0700)]
Fix alignment of tab and timeout messages
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 5 Jun 2007 20:52:03 +0000 (13:52 -0700)]
com32: change the message color scheme; background 0 is always transparent
Change the default message color scheme, and allow the user to tweak the
global parameters as well as individual entries.
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 2 Jun 2007 01:35:25 +0000 (18:35 -0700)]
RAID mode installer support for SYSLINUX
Hook up RAID mode in the installers for SYSLINUX
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 2 Jun 2007 01:20:17 +0000 (18:20 -0700)]
Remove unused set_8() function
Remove unused set_8() function, to keep gcc quiet.
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 2 Jun 2007 01:18:19 +0000 (18:18 -0700)]
RAID mode installer support for extlinux
Hook up RAID mode in the extlinux installer.
H. Peter Anvin [Sat, 2 Jun 2007 01:17:46 +0000 (18:17 -0700)]
"RAID mode": execute INT 18h on boot failure instead of wait for key
In "RAID mode" we want to execute INT 18h on boot failure instead of
waiting for a user keypress.
Otavio Salvador [Thu, 31 May 2007 19:55:16 +0000 (16:55 -0300)]
Shift horiontaly timeout message when HSHIFT is set
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:08:27 +0000 (17:08 -0700)]
Document F-key help in the simple menu system
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:07:40 +0000 (17:07 -0700)]
Add file missing from previous checkin
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:05:02 +0000 (17:05 -0700)]
Hook up F-key help for the menu system, document
H. Peter Anvin [Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:04:43 +0000 (17:04 -0700)]
Fix decoding of <F11> and <F12>
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:53:37 +0000 (15:53 -0700)]
If no serial console is configured, don't bother calling into it
If there is no serial console configured, we can simply drop writes
from com32 rather than letting syslinux do that.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:47:25 +0000 (15:47 -0700)]
Document that we disabled polling for ARP.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:46:48 +0000 (15:46 -0700)]
Disable polling for ARP during idle.
Disable polling for ARP during idle. On some PXE stacks, e.g. Marvell,
this just takes way too long. Compared to that, losing an ARP is a
relatively benign event.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:43:49 +0000 (15:43 -0700)]
Correct inverted handling of Ctrl-F
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:43:18 +0000 (15:43 -0700)]
Simple program to dump serial console info
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:42:50 +0000 (15:42 -0700)]
Implement syslinux_serial_console_info()
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:41:50 +0000 (15:41 -0700)]
ansi.h: remove unused field
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:40:14 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
Hacky debugging function by setting VESA pixels, sometimes useful
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:39:18 +0000 (15:39 -0700)]
ansi.c: minor cleanups
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:37:53 +0000 (15:37 -0700)]
vesa/drawtxt.c: remove divide caused by %
Although this particular % should be reducible to a mask, it looks
like gcc doesn't deduce that.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 22:35:55 +0000 (15:35 -0700)]
xserial_write: handle the new \1..\5 control sequences
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 19:01:15 +0000 (12:01 -0700)]
pxelinux: Save/set up/restore ES around init.inc
At this point, ES points to the PXE entry structure, but init.inc
assumes ES == DS.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 18:53:55 +0000 (11:53 -0700)]
Add missing parenthesis
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 18:47:01 +0000 (11:47 -0700)]
Fix problem where the command line would get truncated during edit
Fix a problem where, during edit, the command line would occationally lose
the last character.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 18:46:13 +0000 (11:46 -0700)]
Improve comment
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 18:39:53 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
Remove Linux test compilation
Remove support for Linux test compilation. Use Qemu for testing, instead.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 18:37:20 +0000 (11:37 -0700)]
Change \2#0 -> \1#
Now when attribute codes can be different lengths, use that...
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 04:31:41 +0000 (21:31 -0700)]
Handle color tables with more than 100 entries
For sane handling of message files with attributes, we need to be able
to do more than 256 attributes. The easiest way is to simply allow a
table to be that large; we have enough memory for the job.
Otavio Salvador [Thu, 31 May 2007 02:26:08 +0000 (23:26 -0300)]
Add support to change menu vertical and horizontal shifting
Two new options has been add to allow to change the menu position and
also makes it backward compatible with previous configuration files.
The new options are 'vshift' and 'hshift'
Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 00:45:32 +0000 (17:45 -0700)]
Parse F-key help commands in the menu system
This adds support for parsing the F-key help commands in the menu
system; it still doesn't actually do anything with them.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 31 May 2007 00:17:11 +0000 (17:17 -0700)]
Allow binding help text to F11 and F12.
Fix the odd anomaly that one can't bind help text to F11 and F12.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 30 May 2007 23:49:57 +0000 (16:49 -0700)]
Add "help" to the comment
Add the "help" entry to list in comment
Luciano Rocha [Wed, 23 May 2007 20:50:16 +0000 (21:50 +0100)]
Don't clobber /dev/null when compiling as root
Compiling as root is highly discouraged, but some people do it anyway.
gcc_ok, however, can clobber /dev/null due to "-o /dev/null"; this is
bad. Instead, write a temporary file and delete it.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 23 May 2007 06:58:32 +0000 (23:58 -0700)]
Drop TFTP_MTU to 1440.
Drop TFTP_MTU to 1440. This gives TFTP_LARGE_BLK = 1408 = 0x580, which
is the roundest number without dropping the MTU significantly below the
standard Ethernet MTU.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 23 May 2007 06:27:46 +0000 (23:27 -0700)]
Make it safe to call close_file on an already closed file.
The SYSLINUX internal API closes a file automatically upon reading
to block EOF (not necessarily file EOF!) Thus, it's fairly likely
we'll get SI == 0 (closed file) passed to close_file at some point
or another.
Just plain admit it, and make close_file accept SI == 0 by spec.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 23 May 2007 06:03:47 +0000 (23:03 -0700)]
Make the menu system understand INCLUDE as well.
This adds support for INCLUDE (as opposed to MENU INCLUDE) to the
menu system.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 23 May 2007 06:03:08 +0000 (23:03 -0700)]
Document INCLUDE
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 23 May 2007 05:58:57 +0000 (22:58 -0700)]
Add "include" command to the core syslinux parser
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 23 May 2007 05:46:25 +0000 (22:46 -0700)]
getc: make sure EOF is "sticky"
Make sure to keep all the counters at zero if we hit EOF, so that
subsequent calls will also hit EOF (we rely on that in some places.)
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 23 May 2007 05:40:39 +0000 (22:40 -0700)]
New stackable getc interface, using the real_mode_seg for buffers.
Change the getc system so that it is fully stackable. We use the
real_mode_seg for the necessary buffers, so using the real_mode_seg
across use of open/getc/close is not permitted.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 23 May 2007 04:39:11 +0000 (21:39 -0700)]
Revert "ISOLINUX: Include the caching code"
This reverts commit
c9bd66193212de58d1f7de78e3076b01e0172640.
We don't need the functionality after all.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 23 May 2007 04:38:34 +0000 (21:38 -0700)]
Revert "Add subroutines to add/remove blocks from the expiry chain"
This reverts commit
8920cf3559c034c947c2dd63892c9dd25453d245.
The functionality needs some more polish, but we don't actually need
it at the moment.
H. Peter Anvin [Wed, 23 May 2007 04:02:34 +0000 (21:02 -0700)]
Use a segment layout more similar to the other derivatives
As the difference between the derivatives has decreased, make the
segment layout closer to the same (with pktbuf_seg == cache_seg.)