[syslinux] isolinux 2.0+ won't boot from DVD

James Courtier-Dutton James at superbug.demon.co.uk
Fri Jun 13 09:09:54 PDT 2003


Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> 
>> Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:10:23AM -0700, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
>>>  > No, how can I tell?
>>> isoinfo -l -i image.iso or -i /dev/cdrom
>>>
>>> In between [] is shown the "extent", which, it seams, is directly 
>>> related
>>> with sectors.
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, I guess that I needed to add an i386/ to the beginning of the 
>> sort file paths.  That yeilded:
>>
>>
>> d--------- 0 0 0 4096 Jun 12 2003 [    170]  ISOLINUX
>> ---------- 0 0 0 9172 Jun 12 2003 [   4306]  ISOLINUX.BIN;1
>>
>> ---------- 0 0 0 2163 Jun 11 2003 [   4311]  ISOLINUX.CFG;1
>>
>>
>> which looks much better.  I am testing it now to see if that works.
>>
>> Forrest
> 
> 
Could it be due to the filename.
SYSLINUX 2.0 does strange things with .BIN extension, so maybe ISOLINUX 
does the same.
If the ISOLINUX.BIN is just a bzImage, rename it to something else.

Cheers
James




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