[syslinux] Can't boot Syslinux from HD directly. Can indirect ly?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Aug 2 11:56:02 PDT 2005


Luis.F.Correia wrote:
>>
>>Yikes.  I had just assumed later version = greater 
>>compatibility and gone straight for the latest...  Well, I 
>>had to go all the way back to 2.13 (even 3.00 didn't work,) 
>>but, it seems to be working alright now.  I guess that it 
>>doesn't make much difference if I have to use an old version 
>>in this case, it seems to have all the features I need for 
>>this particular setup.  It's strange that I was ok with the 
>>latest version on that older KN-97 though.  Still, I can 
>>understand better Asus compatibility than Supermicro (who 
>>apparently are actually still around -- I found a website and 
>>it still has archives for the old products even -- just they 
>>aren't exactly concentrating on many desktop systems anymore.)
> 
> H. Peter would appreciate if you could detect where it did got broken,
> Testing all the releases and the pre also...
> 

Yes, please.  This has seemed to be a *damned* elusive bug, and I'm 
utterly puzzled by it.

	-hpa




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