[syslinux] Re: pxelinux kernel fails vaio c1mzx

[H. Peter Anvin]

Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>No, no, and no :(
>>
>>You're absolutely right it's a mistake.  Unfortunately it was Micro$oft
>>that made it, not I.  The use of the .bin extension is unfortunately
>>necessary for NTLDR compatibility :( :( :(
> 
> 
> Hm.  Is there a size limitation on CD boot sectors?  Maybe you could
> bomb out with a helpful error message if the .bin file is larger than
> 32K or whatever...
> 

I could, but it would mean special-casing something that is currently a
more generic feature: .0, .bs and .bin are now doing exactly the same
thing, which is to load a file of arbitrary length at 0:7C00 and jump to
it as if the boot loader itself was invoked.  The file is limited only
by low memory.

	-hpa