[syslinux] Re: pxelinux kernel fails vaio c1mzx

Patrick J. LoPresti patl at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Dec 10 16:13:28 PST 2002


"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:

> No, no, and no :(
> 
> You're absolutely right it's a mistake.  Unfortunately it was Micro$oft
> that made it, not I.  The use of the .bin extension is unfortunately
> necessary for NTLDR compatibility :( :( :(

Hm.  Is there a size limitation on CD boot sectors?  Maybe you could
bomb out with a helpful error message if the .bin file is larger than
32K or whatever...

 - Pat



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