[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.01-pre1 released

[Egan Ford]

C/H/S is a match on my end for mkdiskimage, dosemu, and memdisk.  They
all report the same.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:04 AM
> To: G. Murali Krishnan
> Cc: Egan Ford; 'Syslinux'
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.01-pre1 released
> 
> 
> 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
>