[syslinux] isolinux-3.70: Doesn't Load .BSS Images

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Jul 19 23:01:10 PDT 2008


Mr Roboto wrote:
> Just tried the latest release and found a minor bug.  Have 
> a UFD w/ SYSLINUX, which boots a simple .BSS image no problem.  
> Launching exactly the same image on a ISOLINUX disc fails w/ 
> the following error msg:
> 
> Invalid image type for this media
> 
> That's it for this msg.  Later....Jet

That's not a bug.  BSS images only make sense on FAT filesystems (boot 
sector + copying the FAT superblock), so you can't load them from an ISO 
9660 filesystem...

	-hpa




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