[arch-releng] [PATCH] [archiso] Workaround broken BIOS for ISOLINUX

[Thomas Bächler]

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.


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