[syslinux] Bug#587150: #587150: d-i netinst cd doesn't boot, isolinux error: further investigation

[Ferenc Wagner]

"Helmut Hullen" <Hullen at t-online.de> writes:

> Du meintest am 26.06.10:
>
>>>> I found, that this not only a problem of the netinst cd, but
>>>> also hardware dependent.
>>>> I can boot my old 486 Toshiba Satellite laptop with this cd,
>>>> but on my IBM Thinkpad T23 the cd produces the isolinux error:
>>>>
>>>> Error: no configuration file found.
>
>> What does it say *before* that?
>
> Now I've tested my home brewed pxelinux:
>
>    <http://helmut.hullen.de/filebox/Linux/slackware/a/syslinux-tftpboot-4.00-i486-1hln.tgz>
>
> (I've only copied the contents of "/usr/share/syslinux" - pre63 - to "/ 
> tftpboot"), and the system seems to work in the same way as with  
> syslinux-3.8.4, especially without any error message.
>
> Tested on the same 3 machines as with the debian *.iso image.
>
> Is the message "reading sectors error(EDD)" a message only related to  
> isolinux?

Yes, pxelinux does not read any sectors from any CD, it reads from the
network instead.
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Thanks,
Feri.