[syslinux] Bug-report: Booting DOS images from USB

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 20 12:40:13 PST 2004


Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> I can try later on a T23 too, but I fear that it won't make a difference.
> Is it possible that all the Thinkpads have this failure, or is it maybe 
> some conflict between memdisk and the BIOS that has not been discovered 
> yet ?
> 

It's entirely possible.  USB and BIOS actually match extremely poorly,
and what I've seen of BIOS code indicate that most USB support is a
total hatchet job.

	-hpa





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