Re: syslinux -s
On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 06:14:41PM +0000, Tom Lees wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 02:29:57PM +0100, Juan Cespedes wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a system needing the "-safe" disks?
> > H. Peter Anvin sent this to the syslinux mailing list:
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> -----
> > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
> > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:11:21 -0800 (PST)
> > To: syslinux@linux.kernel.org (SYSLINUX mailing list)
> > Subject: syslinux -s
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to hear from anyone who has, or know of, a machine for which
> > the -s option to SYSLINUX is required for it to reliably boot. I need
> > to know the boot medium (floppy, harddisk, CD-ROM, LS-120, zip),
> > machine, the failure mode, and if the error is intermittent or not. I
> > am exploring a way which I hope may make this option unneccesary, at
> > least in the cases where the failure mode is a "boot failed" message.
>
> I'm unsure as to whether its the -s that's needed, but the standard Debian
> 2.1 disks do this ("boot failed") on a whole lab full of Dell PII machines I
> have access to.
Have you tried with the "safe" disks? (resc1440-safe.bin) Those have been
built with the "-s" option.
Now that we are talking about boot-floppies, have you been following the
"automatic hardware detection" thread on debian-devel? If you are still
working on integrating your hardware detection support on potato
boot-floppies we may work together.
Regards,
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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