[syslinux] Licensing petition about isohybrid

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Nov 10 11:55:47 PST 2008


Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> I hereby give permission for this code, translated to the C language, to
>> be released under either the LGPL or the MIT/ISC/2-clause BSD licenses
>> or both, at your option.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> I meanwhile found a test machine for USB booting.
> Is it plausible that a wrong self-LBA in byte 12
> to 15 of isolinux.bin does not prevent booting from
> CD but is a cause of failure with "USB DISK" ?
> 

Yes.  In hybrid mode those numbers are required to be correct, whereas
in plain CD mode there is a fallback.

	-hpa




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