[syslinux] Recent Isolinux fails to boot Via C3 Samuel 2

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Nov 19 08:57:34 PST 2007


Owen G. wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I've trawled through some of the archives about the
> BIOS of my PC but I don't think this is the answer.
> 
> I have a VIA C3 S2 motherboard (it's a VIA CL).  The
> BIOS is version 1.23 which is the latest for for this
> mb.
> 
> kubuntu 7.04 boots OK, as have all previous versions
> of kubuntu.
> 
> kubuntu 7.10 doesn't boot, neither does suse 10.3 or
> Fedora 8.  All of of them get hung up at . . . well
> see this kubuntu log for details:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/152257
> 

Kubuntu uses a locally modified isolinux, so I can't really know what is 
going on there.

My current suggestion is to try 3.53 and if that still doesn't work, try 
to figure out which official release or prerelease (or even better, "git 
bisect") is the first one that breaks.

	-hpa




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