[arch-releng] Fix for unbooteable ISOLINUX on broken BIOS

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 11/27/2013 01:29 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> Am 26.11.2013 22:54, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>> On 11/26/2013 12:17 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>>> Am 26.11.2013 16:15, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
>>>> Am 26.11.2013 16:05, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>>>>> The cause and bug is trivially fixed:
>>>>> ----
>>>>> diff --git a/core/isolinux.asm b/core/isolinux.asm
>>>>> index bd4e9556922d..c4db4133e274 100644
>>>>> --- a/core/isolinux.asm
>>>>> +++ b/core/isolinux.asm
>>>>> @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ MaxLMA		equ 384*1024		; Reasonable limit (384K)
>>>>>  		call getlinsec
>>>>>  		pop eax
>>>>>  		pop cx
>>>>> -		mov dx,cx
>>>>> +		movzx edx,cx
>>>>>  		pop bp
>>>>>  		pop bx
>>>>> ----
>>>>>
>>>>> @Tobias: Could you rebuild syslinux with patch [#2] included? Thanks!
>>>> I don't think we rebuild the asm code in our syslinux package, as
>>>> upstream doesn't recommend it. Instead, we only build the syslinux
>>>> installer and use the shipped binaries.
>>> Oh, it seems that was reverted. So this should work fine.
>>>
>>>
>> Yes. Can be great if the new pkg goes to [core] before next 2013.12 ;)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> Done
> 

Gracias :)


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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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