[syslinux] memdisk on sony vaio (phoenix bios)

mark pryor tlviewer at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 29 14:47:48 PDT 2007


hello,

I'm a happy Syslinux user.

I've been learning how to package floppy images to boot from USB flash.
The USB devices seem to work on a huge variety of platforms, especially AMI bios machines.

All the new DELL Inspiron notebooks work flawlessly, happily booting my USB Syslinux setups.

Along comes a new Sony Vaio (VGN-FZ140E) with a Phoenix bios and none of the memdisk floppy images work -- they hang. My linux kernel based images still boot fine.

When this happens, what is a good strategy? So far I've tried:
 -- looking for the latest bios (Sony seems to hide the location for this)
 -- upgrade to the latest Syslinux (moving from 3.10 on fc5 to 3.51 from zytor)

is there some generic weakness with any Phoenix bios?

thanks for any advice,
Mark

       
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