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[H. Peter Anvin]

Erich Titl wrote:
> 
>> ....
>> 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.
> 

Because we're talking about booting from physical floppy media? 
ISOLINUX boots from a CD-ROM.

	-hpa