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Hello, my name is Douglas McClendon. I just joined this list. The question that prompted me to join, is actually quite timely, as it related to the Booting ISOs thread, which unfortunately, I can't just continue. I think the answer the "Booting ISOs" question got, regarding the knoppix cheatcode, was relevant, bu...

Ok, this is crazy, but I have a livedvd I created with fedora-8's syslinux-3.36-7.fc8 and when I boot under qemu ( -boot d -cdrom /dev/dvd) it boots just fine, but when I boot it on the actual hardware (vaio vgn-n250e), the kernel cmdline gets truncated at about the 99th character, causing problems. The same exact physical livedvd booted on a different box does not get truncated. The

I've noticed in the last roughly year, something seems to have changed with with the syslinux/isolinux I've been using, causing there to be an unwanted flash of pure white just at the threshold of isolinux starting linux. I'm using vesamenu.c32, and have played around a bit with the dozen or so color options. I half suspect perhaps this is a linux KMS caused thing. Though one