[syslinux] Syslinux 3.07 hangs when using on old system

Alan Sim alansim at pacific.net.sg
Sun Mar 13 15:10:54 PST 2005


Surprisingly when I tried Syslinux 2.13, it is able to boot.
Maybe there is something missing.

Hope this helps...

----- Original Message -----
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
To: "alansim" <alansim at pacific.net.sg>
Cc: <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:46 AM
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Syslinux 3.07 hangs when using on old system


> alansim wrote:
> > When I try to use syslinux 3.07 on older system, such as celeron 333
Mhz,
> > BIOS is AMIBIOS. The screen freezes with "Syslinux 3.07 2005-01-12".
> > But when I syslinux 3.07 to boot from diskette on the same system, it
works,
> > I have also tried ISOlinux on a CD, it works too on the same system.
> > Then I took the same harddisk (85MB) and put on a newer system, celeron
550
> > Mhz, Award Bios, it works.
> > The problem seems like syslinux cannot work on harddisk installed on
older
> > system.
> > I have tried serveral other harddisk (2Gb, 8GB etc) too, the same error
> > occured on the older system.
> >
>
> There does seem to be some bug in syslinux 3.07 which trips up a bunch
> of older systems, unfortunately none that I have.  One of the members of
> the mailing list is sending me a motherboard to test out with.  Given
> the number of systems that appear affected, this is getting to be a
> moderately high priority.
>
> -hpa




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