EDD error RE: [syslinux] Re: SYSLINUX 2.12-pre7 released

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Dec 9 20:40:05 PST 2004


Blaauw,Bernd B. wrote:
>>No, but you can write a comboot/com32 module to do it if you wish.
> 
> I meant for syslinux.exe/com (the installer).
> 

Oh, right... I forgot all about that.  On that subject, how would you 
expect this to work when the bootsector is tied to a particular location 
of ldlinux.sys?  (I'm not being negative, I am just trying to understand 
the requirement(s).)

> that BIOS issue is now handled in the driver the author wrote. Unfortunately I can't find another cdrom which boots but lets me access A: to really demonstrate it's the BIOS which is doing this.
> Every non-emulation cdrom either uses isolinux (even ReactOS bootloader) or does not allow booting to diskette.
> 
> thanks for the feedback anyway, and good luck releasing 2.12.

Thanks.

	-hpa





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