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SYSLINUX-3.52-pre5: XP BOOTSEC.BIN Bug
I just encountered my only bug w/ the ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combination
from 3.52-pre5. Updated a *working* CD project w/ the new
ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combo just last week. Booting my preferred Linux
distro (Slax-6) from my custom CDs work perfectly, however when I
updated a CD project that includes BartPE/WinPE, BartPE fails to
boot w/ 'CDBoot can not boot CD: error 4" msg. For the record, the
stanza that fails:

####
LABEL bartpe
MENU DEFAULT
MENU LABEL ^BartPE/WinPE
TEXT HELP
Boot the ultimate power tool for repairing Windows 2K/XP/2K3/Vista....
ENDTEXT
KERNEL /BOOTSECT.BIN
APPEND -
####


I realized almost immediately what was wrong and rolled back to the
modules from 3.50 and the boot error went away. In anticipation of
pos follow-up questions: did not forget the -boot-info-table
option; problem isn't media-related as I was testing under VMWare;
generating ISOs w/ UltraISO (reliably for *many* months now.)

This isn't an urgent issue for me, as I updated just for the
helluvit. Just trying to be a good citizen, as you asked others to
check out MENU HSHIFT/MARGIN/etc. Wouldn't have hurt to include a
couple lines about the behavior of these cmds, just to cut down on
some of the trial-and-error cycles, specifically the ones that position
in relative terms (like HSHIFT+VSHIFT.) Can kinda see the utility of
HSHIFT, but VSHIFT seems that it could really make a mess of things.
Thanx. Later....


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Re: SYSLINUX-3.52-pre5: XP BOOTSEC.BIN Bug [ In reply to ]
Duke McAllister wrote:
> I just encountered my only bug w/ the ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combination
> from 3.52-pre5. Updated a *working* CD project w/ the new
> ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combo just last week. Booting my preferred Linux
> distro (Slax-6) from my custom CDs work perfectly, however when I
> updated a CD project that includes BartPE/WinPE, BartPE fails to
> boot w/ 'CDBoot can not boot CD: error 4" msg. For the record, the
> stanza that fails:
>
> ####
> LABEL bartpe
> MENU DEFAULT
> MENU LABEL ^BartPE/WinPE
> TEXT HELP
> Boot the ultimate power tool for repairing Windows 2K/XP/2K3/Vista....
> ENDTEXT
> KERNEL /BOOTSECT.BIN
> APPEND -
> ####
>
>
> I realized almost immediately what was wrong and rolled back to the
> modules from 3.50 and the boot error went away. In anticipation of
> pos follow-up questions: did not forget the -boot-info-table
> option; problem isn't media-related as I was testing under VMWare;
> generating ISOs w/ UltraISO (reliably for *many* months now.)
>

Interesting... *huge* thanks for the heads-up. I will look into this.

Would it be possible to give me access to your CD image?

-hpa

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Re: SYSLINUX-3.52-pre5: XP BOOTSEC.BIN Bug [ In reply to ]
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> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:27:35 -0700
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] SYSLINUX-3.52-pre5: XP BOOTSEC.BIN Bug
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> Duke McAllister wrote:
> > I just encountered my only bug w/ the ISOLINUX+VESAMENU
> > combination from 3.52-pre5. Updated a *working* CD project w/
> > the new ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combo just last week. Booting my
> > preferred Linux distro (Slax-6) from my custom CDs work
> > perfectly, however when I updated a CD project that includes
> > BartPE/WinPE, BartPE fails to boot w/ 'CDBoot can not boot CD:
> > error 4" msg. For the record, the stanza that fails:
> >
> > ####
> > LABEL bartpe
> > MENU DEFAULT
> > MENU LABEL ^BartPE/WinPE
> > TEXT HELP
> > Boot the ultimate power tool for repairing Windows 2K/XP/2K3/Vista....
> > ENDTEXT
> > KERNEL /BOOTSECT.BIN
> > APPEND -
> > ####
> >
> >
> > I realized almost immediately what was wrong and rolled back to
> > the modules from 3.50 and the boot error went away. In
> > anticipation of pos follow-up questions: did not forget the
> > -boot-info-table option; problem isn't media-related as I was
> > testing under VMWare; generating ISOs w/ UltraISO (reliably for
> > *many* months now.)
> >
>
> Interesting... *huge* thanks for the heads-up. I will look into this.
>
> Would it be possible to give me access to your CD image?
>
> -hpa
>

I'd *love* to exc the std ISO is 700MB ! Pairing it down to just the BartPE
code makes it about 450MB, maybe I could get it down to 270MB w/ tight 7Z-LZMA
compression. If you don't mind d/l'g something *that* big, let me know and I'll
try and make a pkg for you to d/l....

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Re: SYSLINUX-3.52-pre5: XP BOOTSEC.BIN Bug [ In reply to ]
Duke McAllister wrote:
>
> I'd *love* to exc the std ISO is 700MB ! Pairing it down to just the BartPE
> code makes it about 450MB, maybe I could get it down to 270MB w/ tight 7Z-LZMA
> compression. If you don't mind d/l'g something *that* big, let me know and I'll
> try and make a pkg for you to d/l....
>

I don't have a problem downloading a big image...

-hpa

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