[syslinux] extlinux "boot failed" on older (pentium 3) motherboards

[Nick]

Would it help you if I could send you the CPU/Motherboard/Ram of an
affected system?  I think I have a spare set that I could do without.


> I first tried it with syslinux 2.13, which worked fine.
>
> Then I tried it with syslinux 3.00, and I get the exact same:
>
> Boot failed
>
> message like I did before.  So it would appear this is something that
> cropped up in 3.x, and doesn't directly have to do with extlinux.
>
> It probably doesn't matter, but there are 2 different types of
> motherboards that use two different chipsets (one is an asus cusl2-c with
> 815 chipset, and the other two are asus cubx-e with 440bx chipsets), so it
> would not appear to be isolated to one specific bios version.
>
>
>> Nick wrote:
>>> Actually, I did not use syslinux 3.xx since when I found 3.x I started
>>> using extlinux.  The version of syslinux is 2.11.
>>>
>>
>> Could you try it, please?
>>
>> 	-hpa
>>
>
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