Syslinux - May 2003 - boot failing with large cd's?

Hi,

I am not sure if this is an isolinux problem or an mkisofs problem. I 
have been using isolinux for a year now without any problems. This week, 
it began to fail. The only difference is that the CD has a few more 
files on it than before (1026 files, 327 MB).

mkisofs was creating the image alphabetically, and the isolinux 
directory was at the very end. I then tried using the -sort parameter 
with mkisofs to have the isolinux directory at the beginning of the CD 
and it worked!

I am not sure what type of information would be helpful here. I looked 
through isolinux.asm to see if perhaps isolinux was unable to search far 
enough in the directory listing to find my isolinux directory. However, 
my assembly skills are too limited.

I used syslinux 2.04 and mkisofs 2.0. I also tried it with syslinux 1.72 
and mkisofs 1.1 with the same results. With -sort works, without -sort 
does not work.

Let me know if there is anything you would like me to check or if there 
is any specific information you need from me. The only "special" 
parameters I use are "-R -J" with mkisofs.

John Ogness

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John Ogness wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure if this is an isolinux problem or an mkisofs problem. I 
> have been using isolinux for a year now without any problems. This week, 
> it began to fail. The only difference is that the CD has a few more 
> files on it than before (1026 files, 327 MB).
> 
Most likely it's a BIOS problem.  Some BIOSen have been known to have 
this bug.

	-hpa