Thomas Schmitt
2017-Mar-20 08:14 UTC
[syslinux] "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC
Hi, David Christensen wrote:> The USB flash drive boots the Debian installer in the old PC!Congrats.> There is no syslinux.cfg on debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso:The configuration is named /isolinux/isolinux.cfg. Looks like it is surrounded by a little empire of .cfg files: /isolinux/adgtk.cfg /isolinux/adtxt.cfg /isolinux/exithelp.cfg /isolinux/gtk.cfg /isolinux/isolinux.cfg /isolinux/menu.cfg /isolinux/prompt.cfg /isolinux/rqgtk.cfg /isolinux/rqtxt.cfg /isolinux/spkgtk.cfg /isolinux/stdmenu.cfg /isolinux/txt.cfg The "append" statements are in several of the subordinate files. E.g. in /isolinux/txt.cfg: append desktop=xfce vga=788 initrd=/install.386/initrd.gz --- quiet> Thanks, everyone, for your patience and assistance. :-)Martin and me will probably ask you to put our experimental bytes onto your USB stick and to report what Martin's upcomming test MBR tells when you attempt to boot it on the old computers. Have a nice day :) Thomas
Geert Stappers
2017-Mar-20 08:46 UTC
[syslinux] "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC
> > Martin and me will probably ask you to put our experimental bytes onto > your USB stick and to report what Martin's upcomming test MBR tells > when you attempt to boot it on the old computers.@Martin: Please include the "In-Reply-To: " header in your e-mails (Yes, I'm saying the email config of Martin is broken)
Ady Ady
2017-Mar-20 09:57 UTC
[syslinux] "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC
> Martin and me will probably ask you to put our experimental bytes onto > your USB stick and to report what Martin's upcomming test MBR tells > when you attempt to boot it on the old computers. >Please forgive my lack of knowledge/understanding... Aren't the diag/*.* images enough? See: http://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git/blob/HEAD:/diag/geodsp/README http://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git/blob/HEAD:/diag/mbr/README Regards, Ady.
Thomas Schmitt
2017-Mar-20 10:31 UTC
[syslinux] "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC
Hi, Ady wrote:> Aren't the diag/*.* images enough?They tell the C/H/S geometry and make a few read attempts. This might already show unexpected behavior of the BIOS. If David Christensen is ready to test these images, i would be interested in seeing the outcome. But in the end it is the code in isohdpfx.bin which fails to read the proper start block of isolinux.bin. There are several decisions made in that code which would be of interest. Especially i am curious what block it gets when it believes to ask the BIOS for block 8444 where isolinux.bin begins in debian-8.7.1-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso. Have a nice day :) Thomas
David Christensen
2017-Mar-20 20:51 UTC
[syslinux] "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt" when booting USB flash drive in old PC
On 03/20/2017 01:14 AM, Thomas Schmitt via Syslinux wrote:>> Thanks, everyone, for your patience and assistance. :-) > > Martin and me will probably ask you to put our experimental bytes onto > your USB stick and to report what Martin's upcomming test MBR tells > when you attempt to boot it on the old computers.Okay. David
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