[syslinux] syslinux-3.36-pre8 feedback

Gilles Espinasse g.esp at free.fr
Thu Feb 8 16:31:59 PST 2007


Tested floppy boot on two machines (one PII 350, one 486DX4)

Floppy boot with syslinux is very very slow, more than 18 mn to boot a linux
kernel from floppy on the 2 machines.
Tested with 3 different disquettes that were know to work, boot is reached
after this very long time.
Noise from floppy head make think floppy wait approximatly one minute
between each read.

No problem with pxe boot with Intel boot agent v4.19 and e100 and 3.36-pre8

Going back to syslinux-3.20 or 3.35 make the two machines boot normally with
syslinux and floppy.

Gilles




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