[syslinux] syslinux 3.07 fails on MSI Hermes 651 boxes

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Mar 5 10:17:01 PST 2005


Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> When trying to boot a 2.88M syslinux 3.07 image from the boot area of a CD on 
> an MSI Hermes 651, it says "SYSLINUX 3.07 2005-01-12 ", then hangs forever.
> 
> On any other machine I've tried, the same CD displays my boot.msg after this 
> message, and then boots the kernels listed in the configs.
> 
> Any idea what's causing this, and how to fix/work around it?
> 

Disk images are broken in many recent BIOSes, probably especially 2.88 
MB ones.  I would try using ISOLINUX instead.

	-hpa




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