[syslinux] Re: syslinux 1.67 - have to use '-s' on my Dell CPiA 366

Dag Bakke dag at bakke.com
Mon Apr 15 03:46:22 PDT 2002


On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:43:09PM +0200, Dag Bakke wrote:
> Hi. I need to use '-s' with syslinux, in order to make it work on my
> Dell CpiA 366 laptop *when I use 1722kB floppies*.

Failure mode is:
"Invalid compressed format (err=2)" when decompressing the kernel.


> Plain 1440kB floppies work w/o '-s'.

I have a recent bios for this laptop. (rev. 15)


> 1722kB images work well with bochs without the use of '-s'.
> http://bochs.sf.net/
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dag B



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