Syslinux currently presents (at various times) a header with name, version, bios type, and copyright information at boot. It would be better if we didn't interrupt the nice smooth boot process with this information since it isn't particularly interesting to the user. I've verified that the attached patch does this.
Created attachment 487152 [details] patch against 4.02 It would be very appreciated if we can get this or something similar in for F15 (soon if possible). Thank you!
This builds fine on F13 but I've been told that the newer pickier compiler in F15 causes the build to fail due to Werror. Will investigate.
Ok, a brief update. There is very little chance we'd be able to make 4.02 compile with f15 and gcc 4.6. So I tried updating to the 4.04 release candidate. It builds fine. However, the binaries produced by f15 do not seem to boot. However, the binaries for the same srpm built on say f13 boot fine. I think it might be related to: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2011-March/016221.html It was suggested on IRC that someone is looking into this. I'll attach my patches to build that new version anyway.
Created attachment 488522 [details] patch to build 4.04-pre14
Created attachment 488524 [details] patch to quiet boot 4.04-pre14
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Created attachment 619964 [details] patch for 4.05 Requires building everything from source (bug #749428)
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