[syslinux] SYSLINUX-3.52-pre5: XP BOOTSEC.BIN Bug
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sat Aug 11 22:27:35 PDT 2007
Duke McAllister wrote:
> I just encountered my only bug w/ the ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combination
> from 3.52-pre5. Updated a *working* CD project w/ the new
> ISOLINUX+VESAMENU combo just last week. Booting my preferred Linux
> distro (Slax-6) from my custom CDs work perfectly, however when I
> updated a CD project that includes BartPE/WinPE, BartPE fails to
> boot w/ 'CDBoot can not boot CD: error 4" msg. For the record, the
> stanza that fails:
>
> ####
> LABEL bartpe
> MENU DEFAULT
> MENU LABEL ^BartPE/WinPE
> TEXT HELP
> Boot the ultimate power tool for repairing Windows 2K/XP/2K3/Vista....
> ENDTEXT
> KERNEL /BOOTSECT.BIN
> APPEND -
> ####
>
>
> I realized almost immediately what was wrong and rolled back to the
> modules from 3.50 and the boot error went away. In anticipation of
> pos follow-up questions: did not forget the -boot-info-table
> option; problem isn't media-related as I was testing under VMWare;
> generating ISOs w/ UltraISO (reliably for *many* months now.)
>
Interesting... *huge* thanks for the heads-up. I will look into this.
Would it be possible to give me access to your CD image?
-hpa
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