[syslinux] help.

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 27 May 2009, Jernej Simončič wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 6:11:39, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> We have had a number of reports of this recently... it seems to have
>> something to do with the version of PC-DOS that they ship.
>
> I would say it's more a problem with PC-DOS in general - I've had
> freezes with IBM/Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test on certain machines for
> about 4 years now when booted with memdisk.

Not true. On the systems I am affected, the same happens with 
MSDOS/Windows bootfloppies as well as some other obscure rescue flopies 
from the past.


>> If it happens on T61 I might be able to replicate it locally, but not
>> for the next few days.
>
> Not sure about T61, but R61 (8918-DEG) I have here has this problem.
> BIOS version is 2.20.

Go ahead and try a windows95 or windows98 boot floppy. Or on old MSDOS 
floppy.

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