[syslinux] Disk error 01: AX=4200, drive 82

[H. Peter Anvin]

Josko Plazonic wrote:
> I have located the problem.  It is related to the attempted inclusion of
> a picture by boot.msg - it turns out that picture was length zero and
> its attempted inclusion messed up everything.
> 
> Now, the reason why the picture length was 0 is again the same old perl
> UTF-8 problems in RedHat 9.  The ppmtolss16 tool is perl and when ran
> with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 this is what will output:
> /usr/bin/ppmtolss16: Premature EOF at (319,212) of (640,256)
> and the output is empty. After switching LANG to en_US it will be just
> fine.
> 

Interesting.  That's a bug, obviously... it shouldn't die like that on a
zero-length or nonexistent file.

	-hpa