[syslinux] Syslinux drive confusion
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sun Apr 28 21:05:54 PDT 2013
On 04/28/2013 08:04 AM, Gene Cumm wrote:
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>> It does not matter if I boot from USB or Compact flash drive. I has been noted that the bootloader calls BIOS functions for a drive which are not the boot drive. The boot drive is always 0x80, but the syslinux bootloader do calls for a drive in the range 0x7f or something like that.
>
7F is something that should only happen on CD-ROMs (it is part of the
probe sequences for CD-ROMs.) Something that acts as a disk drive
should not happen... so there might be a plain old bug here, either on
my side or yours.
What version of Syslinux do you see this for?
-hpa
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