[syslinux] ISOLinux wouldn't boot NT CD-ROM bootsect

[H. Peter Anvin]

Tan Zh.D. wrote:
> Deal all,
> 
> Hi. I'm a new user of isolinux. And I 'm trying to boot a WinXP
> installation CD with it. I extracted the bootsect, and place it into
> the same folder together with isolinux.bin. Here's a section of my
> isolinux.cfg:
> ...
> label winxp
>   kernel xpsect.bin
> ...
> 
> The boot splash showed fine. Unfortunately when I tried to boot it, I
> got the following:
> 
> ISOLINUX 3.11 2005-09-02  Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
> isolinux: Starting up, DL = EF
> isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = EF
> isolinux: Loading main image from LBA = 0000728B
> isolinux: Sectors to load = 0005
> isolinux: Loaded boot image, verifying...
> isolinux: Image checksum error, sorry...
> 
> Boot failed: press a key to retry...
> 
> Does anybody know what is wrong with it?  Please kindly help. I'm
> really pissed of by that.
> 

Where did you get the isolinux.bin file from, and what tools did you use 
to create the CD?

	-hpa