Zowie, that was fast ... and so was the fix. The altbin.mbr in 3.81-pre13 now works for me. I found my happiness at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/syslinux-3.81-pre13.zip Thx again! H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'll see if I can find the time to run some tests. > > -hpa > >