[syslinux] isolinux not booting - old 486 with SCSI CD writer

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Feb 16 11:05:49 PST 2008


Bruce Robson wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Will you be changing your future isolinux releases so that it
> works on my hardware?
> 
> i.e. if when scanning drives numbers you find one that returns a
> spec packet which doesn't have the sp_drive field set, accept the
> drive number if it matches the drive initially passed in dl OR 80h.
> 
> Bruce
> 

I need to think through the implications of the patch; I should have 
some time to do that today.  If I don't find any gotchas (as in, would 
break other systems) I'll probably put it in the next prerelease, and 
testing would be appreciated.

	-hpa




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