[syslinux] isolinux.asm - improving spec_query_failed routine ...

[H. Peter Anvin]

Lagerweij B wrote:
> 
> Peter, do you know what bios fails spec packet info call and needs to be
> "winged"...
> 

Not off the top of my head.

> 
>>I think we could all benefit from finding a solution that 
>>works as close 
>>to 100% of the time as we can get.  Maybe one of us should 
>>reverse-engineer Microsoft's CD-ROM boot sector and see what they're 
>>doing.  Has anyone come across a machine that *won't* boot a Windows 
>>install CD?
> 

Yes... what seems to be uniform is that each system seems to be able to 
boot **the version of Windows that was current when the machine 
shipped.**  Some (Promise) have even been known to hard-code the layout 
of that CD!

	-hpa