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Re: investigation of SYSLINUX booting problems



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Bruce Perens writes ("Re: investigation of SYSLINUX booting problems "):
> Peter gave us a patch to try: edit the boot sector to deposit two 0x90 bytes
> at decimal offset 417. I bet those are NOPs. Anyway, I have uploaded a
> patched instrumented SYSLINUX bootdisk. It's at
> ftp.debian.org:/debian/private/project/Incoming/patched_syslinux_bootdisk.gz .

May I ask an impertinent question ?  Why are we using SYSLINUX at
all ?  Is there something wrong with LILO ?

Ian.


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