[syslinux] iso 2.00 isolinux: Checksum error, sorry...

[H. Peter Anvin]

Greg Lonnon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to install redhat 8.0 on a laptop and ran into the following
> problem.
> 
> ISOLINUX 1.75 2002-06-14 isolinux failed to get sector size, assuming
> 0800
> isolinux: Image checksum error, sorry...
> 
> At that point, I followed the advice on the isolinux webpage, and
> reburned a CD using isolinux 2.00 with debug.  The error message was:
> 
> ISOLINUX 2.00 2002-10-25 Copyright (C) 1994-2002 H. Peter Anvin
> isolinux: Starting up, DL = 90
> isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = 90
> isolinux: Loading main image from LBA = 0000247B
> isolinux: Sectors to load = 0004
> isolinux: Loaded boot image, verifying
> isolinux: Image checksum error, sorry...
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem? Is there a workaround? 
> 

This means that your BIOS loaded the wrong sectors, or the wrong number 
of sectors. but reported success.  It's probably close to impossible to 
work around, at least unless it's a trivial problem (such as the BIOS 
using 512-byte sectors instead of 2048-byte sectors as it's supposed to...)

	-hpa