[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.01-pre1 released

[H. Peter Anvin]

G. Murali Krishnan wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Egan Ford wrote:
> 
>>Using pxelinux.0 and memdisk from this release I boot the image and get:
>>
>>Booting...
>>FreeDOS FAT
> 
> I have a similar problem using ISOLinux, but with Version 2.00-pre11.
> Basically I get
> 
> Booting...
> Starting...
> 
> and hangs. This is MSDOS. However, if I use PCDOS, I have no problems at
> all. My guess (may be a wild one) is that it has do with the interrupts
> which are interrupted by ISOLinux, or something like that.
> 

It seems more than a little odd, since FreeDOS actually ships on an 
ISOLINUX/MEMDISK CD, and MS-DOS is what I usually test with.  I know of 
a problem with DR-DOS 7.02 which doesn't seem to be readily fixable 
without introducing new incompatibilities.

This is the kind of behaviour I would expect if the C/H/S geometry that 
MEMDISK generates is inconsistent with the one actually used to generate 
the filesystem (which is critically important for DOS.)  You may want to 
make sure that the C/H/S geometry that MEMDISK spits out is consistent 
with what the filesystem was generated with.

	-hpa