[syslinux] ISOLINUX fails at boot on Award BIOS v6.00PG

[H. Peter Anvin]

Doug Shubert wrote:
> Hello,
> Thanks for the reply
> 
> I rebuilt the RH9 ISO with ioslinux-debug off the 2.08 distribution
> and the following messages are now displayed.
> 
> ISOLINX 2.08 2003-12-12 Copy....
> ISOLINX: Starting up, DL = 9F
> ISOLINX: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it...
> ISOLINX: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive = 9F
> ISOLINX: Loading main image from LBA=00000571
> ISOLINX: Sectors to load = 0004
> ISOLINX: Disk error 01, AX = 4271, drive 9F
> 
> One note that I will add is that the EPIA-5000 mother board does not have
> any
> floppy drive header but the BIOS does have an option to enable/disable the
> FDD.
> 
> Please let me know if this helps or need to flag the isolinux-debug for
> additional messages.
> Doug
> 

Error 01 is FUNCTION NOT SUPPORTED.  Combined with the "extremely broken 
bios..." message this means the BIOS hasn't actually enabled the CD-ROM 
access functions (or done so incorrectly.)

	-hpa