[syslinux] Help bypass broken bios - el torito ???

[Christian Marg]

Jean-Yves Provost wrote:

>linux  internet FW. The  Bios is old and does not let me boot from an el
>torito bootable CD( 1998 PC) 
>Is there any way to get 
>. isolinux on floppy, 
>. when PC read floppy, isolinux tell it to boot from the /dev/hdc
>device, 
>  
>
You could of course try and use Syslinux to Boot a Kernel and Initrd 
from floppy (Then Linux is running and can start using the CD), but I 
don't know if the needed things fit onto a disk (Syslinux, Kernel, 
initrd). It would of course be a big change in the way how your 
Sentry-Firewall CD is booted, but it might be possible to do so...

bye
Christian