[syslinux] ISOLINUX problem booting with no Hard Disk

[H. Peter Anvin]

Michael E Brown wrote:
> Ok, but I still don't exactly understand what is failing. 
> isolinux-debug.bin doesn't print out anything except what was in my first 
> message. Is there a particular line of output that says "BIOS BUG" that I 
> missed?
> 
> Basically, because it gets all of the way down to "Ready.", I am a bit 
> perplexed as to what is going on. Is the transfer off of the CD getting 
> corrupted, or what?

Almost certainly.  See my other message.

> I'm taking an x86 asm class right now, and my asm skills are probably just 
> barely up to the task of what you describe below, but I still don't know 
> what I am looking for.

It's hard to know for certain.  These problems are extremely hard to
debug without access to hardware, as you probably can understand.

	-hpa