[syslinux] Sysinux 6 will not boot ISOs on BIOS (i.e. pre-UEFI) systems

Ady ady-sf at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 24 00:56:50 PST 2013


> The very early code that emits this message is *identical* between
> Syslinux 4 and Syslinux 6.  The biggest difference is the size of
> isolinux.bin, so it is possible that that might be the source of the
> problem.
> 
> 	-hpa
 
I wonder if isolinux.bin should be limited to max. 16 sectors (of 
2KiB each), as that's the default limit in mkisofs "-G 
<generic_boot_image>" option.

If that happens to be the case, perhaps there is some additional 
option so to reserve more sectors for the boot image?

Is there any method to reduce the size of isolinux.bin?

Regards,
Ady.


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