[syslinux] isolinux bug?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Aug 29 16:37:18 PDT 2002


damsnet at free.fr wrote:
> 
> 00106344002i[CPU  ] WARNING: Encountered an unknown instruction (signalling illegal instruction):
> 00106345248i[CPU  ] BxError: instruction with op1=0x10d
> 00106345248i[CPU  ] nnn was 0
> 00106345248i[CPU  ] WARNING: Encountered an unknown instruction (signalling illegal instruction):
> 00106346494i[CPU  ] BxError: instruction with op1=0x10d
> 00106346494i[CPU  ] nnn was 0
> [...]
> 
> 
> I think the problem may comes from isolinux since it does not happen with
> syslinux only bootable cd. But it may comes from the Bochs bios as well.
> 
> Anyway I think you are the most aware of what the nature of the problem
> could be, so may be you can even give the Bochs folks an advice on how
> to resolve this problem (if it is their BIOS that is faulty).
> 

There is absolutely no way to find out from that data, at least not
without knowing the internals of Bochs.  The Bochs BIOS has been known
to boot ISOLINUX in the past, but it's know to be very buggy.

	-hpa





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