[syslinux] Buggy bios, boot of dos image hangs with syslinux, but not with isolinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Zipf Christian wrote:
> Here is the output:
> Ramdisk at 0xdbef0000, length 0x002d0000
> Disk is floppy 0, 2880K C/H/S = 80/2/36, EDD off
> Using raw access to high memory
> Total size needed = 2454 bytes, allocating 3K
> Old dos memory at 0x9d800 (map says 0x9d800), loading at 0x9cc00
> 1588: 0xffff  15E801: 0x3c00 0x7cbe
> INT13 08: Success, count = 0, BPT = 0000:0000
> old: int13 = e320aaef int15 = e3200fab
> new: int13 = 9cc0000a int15 = 9cc0037e
> Loading boot sector... booting...
> Starting MS-DOS
> 
> After that the computer completely freezes, and has to be powered down.
> 
> Does anybody know of a way around this?

Could you try 3.71?  This looks like it may be one of the machines which 
is helped by the new code.

	-hpa