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

[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

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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