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[Erich Titl]

Hi
H. Peter Anvin wrote the following at 20:55 26.05.2002:
>....
>Most BIOSes are highly cantankerous booting off extended-format 
>floppies.  They may not be able to read more than a single sector at a 
>time, and then have to wait for the floppy to rotate a full turn to read 
>the next sector.  SYSLINUX will fall back on this mode of operation if it 
>has to.  Note that *many* BIOSes can't boot extended-format floppies at all.

Maybe I am misguided here but why not just use isolinux in this case. It 
should not suffer from the same limitations.

Erich

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