[syslinux] syslinux problem... (?)

[Alexander Foken]

On 26.11.2012 18:22, Δημήτρης Ανδριόπουλος wrote:
>> Not HP iLO?  How old is the BIOS?  If you boot a DOS floppy with ANSI.SYS,
>> does that work?  (I'm just curious.  If you don't have the time for such a
>> test, then forget it.)  - Shao
>>
> No. It's a new board from gigabyte.
> Bios is the latest 29/2/2012.
>
> Booting a DOS floppy with ANSI.SYS is quite difficult.
>
> My pc is an (almost) new one. I don't have a floppy drive installed
> and I don't have DOS floppies either. (Although I'm old enough and I am
> familiar with MSDOS)

Any USB floppy drive should do the trick.

http://bootdisk.com/ has some boot disk images that you could write to a 
blank floppy, but technically, those images might violate Microsoft's 
copyright. There is also the Freeware http://www.freedos.org/download/ 
that has no legal issues.


>
> Is there any other way to check my system for ANSI support ?
>
>
PCs generally do NOT support ANSI sequences. The DOS ANSI.SYS driver 
adds support for ANSI sequences, and so do the virtual terminal drivers 
of Linux, the *BSDs, and essentially any other Unix.


Alexander


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