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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Nazo wrote:
> 
> (Sorry I messed up the subject and all.  I'm not used to mailing lists.)
> 
> The results of my testing are that version 2.13 official works just
> fine.  Versions 2.20 pre 1-13 say "Boot failed" and the system stops. 
> Versions 2.20 pre14 up to the latest Syslinux show the name and
> version number, then stop.  My guess -- and this is just a guess -- is
> that they all have the same problem with this system, just the older
> 2.20s had code realized something went wrong and would say so to the
> user.  I emphasise that this is a guess because perhaps, for all I
> know, it could instead be possible that some part of the bios realizes
> that something is wrong with those earlier versions and informs me,
> but I haven't seen it do that on anything else, so that may not be
> true.  I didn't see any versions between 2.13 official and 2.20 pre1
> to test with, but, I'm inclined to say whatever happened -- at least,
> the part my test system doesn't like -- happened in the transition
> from 2.13 to 2.20, which is still a pretty large version jump, so I'm
> guessing some large changes still went in, yes?
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't tell you for sure what systems this applies to
> or if it may just be the one since the only other old system I ever
> had to test on, the KN-97-X with the Pentium 2, works fine with even
> the latest version.  I will tell you one thing though.  I was
> impressed with the fact that the Supermicro board supported a lot of
> things BIOSes are officially supposed to support but so often don't,
> such as the localboot -1 command in isolinux (which, btw, is the
> latest version, but, I guess that it works pretty differently from
> syslinux as far as bios booting goes.)

Yup, very very different.

Could you perhaps test the attached patch and see what it does to your 
system?

	-hpa
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