[syslinux] BIOS problem

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Oct 26 10:33:00 PST 2003


Roberto De Leo wrote:
> Hi,
> a user of my MoviX distro (movix.sf.net) sent me a msg about syslinux 
> failing in a strange way to boot from floppy.
> You can read his msg at
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=959734&forum_id=207428
> 
> Basically, the splash picture and the Fn help keys work but while 
> booting he gets always a
> "Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue." message .
> 
> The problem seems a BIOS problem since the same floppy and the same 
> floppy drive booted fine from another PC.
> 
> The MoviX boot floppy uses syslinux 2.06.
> Any hint would be appreciated!

The first hint would be to try syslinux -s.

	-hpa




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