[syslinux] Disk error 00, drive F0

[H. Peter Anvin]

Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have recently downloaded Sorcerer GNU Linux (http://sorcerer.wox.org/)
> which uses ISOLINUX for booting the installation CD-ROM.
> 
> Problem is, I can not get the CD-ROM to boot. I have tested it on
> another computer, and it works fine (The CD-ROM has been written
> correctly).
> 
> When I boot it on my home system, it gives me this error message:
> 
> ISOLINUX 1.66 2002-01-01 isolinux: Disk error 00, drive F0
> Boot failed: press a key to retry...
> 
> My system has an ASUS P2B-F motherboard. I've tried with the latest
> stable (1013A) and the latest beta (1014F) BIOS for the board, same
> result.
> My CD-ROM drive is a Plextor PX-32TS Rev. 1.03.
> 
> I've tried going through some of the sources of ISOLINUX to discover the
> meaning of the error code above, with no luck.
> 
> What exactly does it mean? 
> What's wrong?
> Is there any way to fix it?
> 


What is wrong?  Your BIOS.  It returned an error and didn't give an 
error code.

You can use isolinux-debug.bin to make a version of isolinux which gives 
more information about the problem and maybe can help identify what the 
problem is.

	-hpa