[syslinux] Sysinux 6 will not boot ISOs on BIOS (i.e. pre-UEFI) systems

[Carl Duff]

I see there is a new patch in Arch-testing. Excellent news, especially for
the many people with older BIOS systems.

A big "thank you" to all involved for your substantial time and effort on
this!

Carl


On 27 November 2013 19:32, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> poma wrote:
> > Hardly anyone reads manuals these days.
>
> There are manuals ?
>
> El Torito just specifies how to direct the BIOS to the
> boot image, and what the boot image can learn from the
> BIOS about its origin.
> Possibly this silently builds on MBR specs. But about
> those i can only find wikipedia rumors:
> "the CPU is in real mode and the general-purpose and
>  segment registers are undefined"
>
> Last time i did machine code was with the 6502 of my
> VIC-20, because Microsoft BASIC was so darn slow.
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
>
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