Bug#394700: Any joy using newer syslinux?
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:15:24PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
>> For the record, I tried quit a bunch of cdrom on this box in october.
>> Appart from knoppix 3.2 (which is using isolinux 2.04), I wasn't able to
>> boot anything with isolinux/syslinux > 2.04 (anything <= 2.00 boots
>> fine). One weirdness is that knoppix 3.2 works and sarge install cdrom
>> doesn't with both using isolinux 2.04.
>
>Ummm, did you try the second sarge cd? It is also bootable but it uses what
>I think is called "floppy emulation" method of booting. For what I recall
>old versions of knoppix also used this, It could be that your machine
>doesn't support booting using our new method of booting (same one others
>like MS are using on new OS), but they can boot using "floppy emulation",
>this used to happen on old computers.
>
>Can you try the second sarge CD to test this?
>
>PS: Steve, can you confirm that current sarge release CDs are still carrying
>a "floppy emulation" boot on the second CD?
Ah, good thinking! :-)
The code in the sarge version of the boot-i386 script suggests so,
yes. And checking the CD image on farbror confirms that, yes.
$ isoinfo -d -i debian-31r4-i386-binary-2.iso
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: LINUX
Volume id: Debian 3.1 r4 i386 Bin-2
Volume set id:
Publisher id:
...
Eltorito validation header:
Hid 1
Arch 0 (x86)
ID ''
Key 55 AA
Eltorito defaultboot header:
Bootid 88 (bootable)
Boot media 3 (2.88MB Floppy)
Load segment 0
Sys type 0
Nsect 1
Bootoff 2EB 747
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