[syslinux] help.

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 27 May 2009, Jernej Simončič wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 17:29:24, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>> Go ahead and try a windows95 or windows98 boot floppy. Or on old MSDOS
>> floppy.
>
> Confirmed. Looks like this is a different problem from the one I was
> usually seeing (where only PC-DOS would hang). On this machine, every
> DOS-based floppy I tried hangs. FreeDOS gives most information, it
> hangs after InitDisk, and one of the FreeDOS-based disk test floppy
> images also reports "Invalid Opcode at 0003 0001 0202 0000 0002 0001
> 1000 FEE0 0000 0000 0000":
> http://eternallybored.org/imgs/pub/memdiskhang.jpg
>
> Also, this only happens when booting off USB. When I booted from CD
> with isolinux and memdisk, the floppy images worked just fine.

Correct, same hanging behavior from a local disk. From PXE it worked out 
fine back in 2004/2005, I haven't tried that recently.

Used to be a problem on T23, T30 and possibly T4x too. Was also a problem 
on netfinity/xSeries back in those days.

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