[syslinux] Problems booting with SCSI CD (update)

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Nov 4 18:24:22 PST 2002


Theodore Kilgore wrote:
> Dear Peter,
> 
> Following your suggestion/ I have burned another CD with the
> initrd-debug.bin in it. The error messages which occurred still occurred.
> There was only one new one, which is inserted in the text below in its
> proper place, as well as other, obvious changes like reporting the new
> isolinux version. See text below.
> 
> (If this is of interest to others on the list, I would think that by
> looking at the complete text it is possible to see what the problem is)
> 
> (one new line appears)
> isolinux: Starting up, DL=00
> 

Oh geez.  No wonder you're having problems.  It's quite possible your
BIOS is trying to do floppy emulation even though this is a
"no-emulation" image; another is that it just uses drive number 0, which
is not autoprobed by ISOLINUX.

	-hpa





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