[syslinux] isolinux problem since 3.74

Stillwell, Bryan bryan.stillwell at hp.com
Tue Oct 13 15:05:27 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 21:36 +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Removing these changes in the 3.83 release allows the prototype machines
> > to boot the installer, but I'm not sure why these changes are needed
> > since it works on other (released) machines I have access to.  I'm
> > writing the list because I would like to determine if this is a firmware
> > bug that we can fix before we release, or a bug in isolinux that this
> > machine aggrevates?
> > 
> 
> Sounds like you're using stale .c32 files -- your .c32 files need to
> match your isolinux.bin.

That seems likely in my 3.83 test case, but this change is also needed
on the 3.75 release that fedora12 alpha uses.  I just checked and the
vesamenu.c32 on those CD/DVD images matches the one found in the
official 3.75 release.

Bryan




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