[syslinux] Okay I'm stumped.

[A.J. Venter]

I have a very weird issue with isolinux.
I create disks with a bootsector, kernel etc. 
The CD's boot fine on most machines, but on a significant number the bios just 
completely ignores them. Yet these same bios's boot a number of linux CD's 
all using isolinux. 
Moreover a lot of time the same bios will fail with a CD, yet boot the same 
iso if it's burned onto a DVD.
The only difference I can see between my disks and these vendor disks is that 
my initrd is rather larger - it's a 26mb squashfs image.

Can this be the problem ? Or is there something else I can do - that maybe 
doesn't require me to redo six months of work :p I certainly would prefer not 
to redo it unless I know it's the problem.

The only other CD I've seen that has the same problem in the same places is 
mandrake 9.1 which is an older release of course - but their initrd is pretty 
standard. 

If I'm missing something obvious I appologise but I'm honestly stuck here. If 
needed I'll provide any files you may want to look at.

Ciao
A.J.
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A.J Venter
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