[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.10-pre9

[robotti at godmail.com]

>robotti at godmail.com wrote:
>>>I have just pushed out SYSLINUX 3.10-pre9.  Please test it out,
>>>especially everyone who has been working with me on various systems
>>>trying to get them to work, or have had recent breakage.
>>>
>>>       -hpa
>>
>>
>> It seems to work now, but it takes about 10 seconds before it
>> displays "SYSLINUX CBIOS etc.".
>>
>
>What that means is that it keeps trying and trying to access your broken
>EBIOS, and eventually gives up and falls back to CBIOS (with the
>1024-cylinder limit.)  This is a good thing, because that's what the
>code is supposed to do.  There really doesn't seem to be any better
>option on your particular system, and at least it works now.
>
>(syslinux -s would make it faster, and I'm considering an option to
>force CBIOS, but as people already know, my general attitude is that it
>should work automatically on as many systems as possible, even if it's
>slow.)

The EBIOS problem doesn't seem to exist when using syslinux to boot
from my SATA hard drive (past 1024 cylinders), but just the USB drive.

The USB drive is only 128MB so it doesn't need EBIOS, but it
stumbles over it and falls back to CBIOS.