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On 11/21/2013 02:50 AM, Carl Duff wrote: > Hi All, > > It is impossible to boot Linux-based ISOs that use Syslinux 6.02 via > CD or DVD on older - non-UEFI - systems. Any attempt to do so will > result in the following error message: ISOLINUX 6.02 ETCDisolinux: > Disk error 01, AX = 4279, drive FE > Error 01 is unsupported operation, 42xx is read, so something is really

Hi, Ady wrote: > I wonder if isolinux.bin should be limited to max. 16 sectors (of > 2KiB each), as that's the default limit in mkisofs "-G > <generic_boot_image>" option. Option -G is not related to the El Torito boot image isolinux.bin. It inserts its data into the System Area of the ISO, which is indeed limited to 32 KiB. Use cases are MBR and other kinds of boot sector or partition table. CD/DVD booting via BIOS should ignore this area. Well...

> Hi, > > Ady wrote: > > I wonder if isolinux.bin should be limited to max. 16 sectors (of > > 2KiB each), as that's the default limit in mkisofs "-G > > <generic_boot_image>" option. > > Option -G is not related to the El Torito boot image isolinux.bin. > It inserts its data into the System Area of the ISO, which is > indeed limited to 32 KiB. > Use cases are MBR and other kinds of boot sector or partition table. > > CD/DVD booting via...

...4 and Syslinux 6. The biggest difference is the size of > isolinux.bin, so it is possible that that might be the source of the > problem. > > -hpa I wonder if isolinux.bin should be limited to max. 16 sectors (of 2KiB each), as that's the default limit in mkisofs "-G <generic_boot_image>" option. If that happens to be the case, perhaps there is some additional option so to reserve more sectors for the boot image? Is there any method to reduce the size of isolinux.bin? Regards, Ady.

> I'm the developer of manjaroiso, the tool we use to build our install > medias for Manjaro Linux. > During our testings we found out, that syslinux6 won't work on older > hardware. I've a new Lenovo i7 notebook which booted up our images > just fine. Even with syslinux6. On my other PCs I got similar error > messages as Carl got. (snip) > > In

...ference is the size of >> isolinux.bin, so it is possible that that might be the source of the >> problem. >> >> -hpa > > I wonder if isolinux.bin should be limited to max. 16 sectors (of > 2KiB each), as that's the default limit in mkisofs "-G > <generic_boot_image>" option. > > If that happens to be the case, perhaps there is some additional > option so to reserve more sectors for the boot image? > > Is there any method to reduce the size of isolinux.bin? > > Regards, > Ady. Hi there, these are the cmds I'm using now, w...