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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-08-25 21:19:26 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-08-25 21:19:26 -0700
commit788da3035b2cf325658d6123b1bef73c67290f68 (patch)
tree46498c0a3c2c2d2f139888e3d9320f828c9064ca
parentb7ec0f07b339aed8bd2b8da3603b0ee9a6a7417a (diff)
downloadsyslinux-788da3035b2cf325658d6123b1bef73c67290f68.tar.gz
NEWS: update for 3.83
-rw-r--r--NEWS6
-rw-r--r--doc/memdisk.txt6
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 735bed73..594cf755 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ Changes in 3.83:
* MEMDISK: fix problems booting from USB on Thinkpads, and
possibly other machines or hardware combinations.
* isohybrid: fix the -id option.
+ * HDT: updated to version 0.3.4.
+ * MEMDISK: the stack size is now configurable, with the stack=
+ option.
+ * Simple menu: fix Ctrl-W (word erase) in command-line edit.
+ * Simple menu: fix crash on some platforms.
+ * Gfxboot: fixes to the configuration file parsing.
Changes in 3.82:
* isohybrid: fix the -partok logic for loading from a partition.
diff --git a/doc/memdisk.txt b/doc/memdisk.txt
index 79d76400..58ec748b 100644
--- a/doc/memdisk.txt
+++ b/doc/memdisk.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ f) The following option can be used to pause to view the messages:
pause Wait for a keypress right before booting
+g) The following option can be used to set the real-mode stack size.
+ The default is 512 bytes, but if there is a failure it might be
+ interesting to set it to something larger:
+
+ stack=size Set the stack to "size" bytes
+
Some interesting things to note: