[syslinux] isolinux: Extremely Broken BIOS Detected

[Blaauw,Bernd B.]

In the future, if booting from a cdrom device on an interface is not supported, you might be required to use a USB flash disk with Linux kernel/initrd which would then mount the cdrom on the desired interface.

However, despite its name, Isolinux is a bootloader, and does not have that much to do with Linux itself.

Memtest86 thus works for you, Isolinux does not (on SCSI).
Nex step would be a limited Isolinux version, like ReactOS has.
LiveCD available from www.reactos.com

for IDE/Atapi dvd/cdromdrives, Smart Boot Manager can be used to temporarily use its Eltorito stack instead of the one supplied with BIOS.

SCSI optical media is dying, by the way, but there are compatible media that will require working SCSI:
*FireWire
*USB (maybe)
*SATA cdromdrives (like Plextor PX712SA)

SATA cdrom/dvdrom drives can possible be connected to Serial Attached SCSI controllers, and there you have it: support for booting from SCSI is needed
(don't know what hardware/software should implement it though).

conventional SCSI optical media are obsolete by now. Newest SCSI adapter I could find with support for it is an Adaptec PCI-X controller (29320R or something like that, single channel controller, and about $400..).

Bernd


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