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isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected Yoper 2.1 --------- ISOLINUX 2.11 2004-08-16 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it... isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive = 9F isolinux: Disk error 01, AX = 4209, drive 9F Boot failed: press a key to retry... Helix 1.5 --------- ISOLINUX 2.04 (Debian, 2003-06-06) isolinux: Loading spec packet failed,

Hi, some time ago I tried to boot an isolinux boot loader from another one to be able to boot e.g. a Knoppix CD with its original boot loader and menus from a "main" isolinux on a multiboot DVD. This works for isolinux <= 3.07 now! However, newer isolinux boot loaders have some problems and the isolinux (e.g. of the Knoppix CD) loaded from the multiboot DVD's main isolinux

Hello! I'm trying to boot with a remastered Knoppix 3.4 CD. I burned it with debugging and I get the following output: isolinux: Starting up, DL = 9F isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = 9F isolinux: Loading main image from LBA = DEADBEF0 isolinux: Sectors to load = D5B7 isolinux: Disk error BE, AX = 42F0, drive 9F A don't understand everything in it and I can't find enough

Award BIOS 6.00PG, CD-ROM configured as first boot device CD-ROM on IDE-1, master variable: hard disk drive on IDE-0, master no other IDE devs, no SCSI if i boot with the HDD installed, ISOLINUX boots the CD OK with DL=9F. if i remove the HDD, ISOLINUX fails to load the spec packet and can't ``wing it'' with DL=9F. (no maybe_msg's appear, either) otherwise, this (and the

Hello List, I have a problem with an Onborad scsci, that won't boot a isolinux-cd: anyone got a clue? Mainboard is ASUS-CUV4X-DLS with onboard LSI 35c1010-33 Controller. Board-Bios is Award Medaillion 6.0 and Controller Bios is Symbios SDMS v4.0 (4.18.02) The CDRW device to boot from is a Yamaha CRW2100S Rev1.0H I tried Isolinux 1.63 and 1.66 with similar "success": here's

H. Peter, I came across the first system where isolinux failed to load: ======================================================= Isolinux 1.63 2001-8-6 Copyright ... isolinux: Starting up, DL = F0 isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = F0 isolinux: Sector size appears to be 0800 isolinux: Loading main image from LBA, 0003F25D isolinux: Sectors to load = 0004

Hello List, I have used isolinux for years without problems. Recently I decided to upgrade from 3.09 to 3.11. Every CD I create can be read on my Vectra (Pentium 3) and all other Pentium 3 boxes, but all my Pentium 4 boxes will not boot (they ignore the CD and boot from hard disk). The bochs VM will boot the CDs fine just like the Pentium 3 machines. I have tried 3.09 (which worked

I used to use multiple syslinux floppy images to implement what I call CD-ROM-multiboot (EL Torito supports up to 64 bootable images, Award BIOS 8 images, if not wrey old). Now that floppies are getting too small, I find that I must find a workaround for hard coded isolinux directory name in isolinux. Not a big deal, but there might be also others who would like to have multiboot feature. --

Hi, I'm trying to setup a Linux CD on mashine that will have nothing but a CDROM. Everything worked fine until I removed the HDD. From this moment on the CD doesn;t boot. I upgraded to Syslinux 2.0 but with no luck. The error message I got almost says it all: "Extremely broken BIOS", but can I ask for help if there some ideas how to fix this, cause if I put the HDD back the CD boots

Hi. There's a rescue cd at ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/people/areq/RescueCD/ that uses isolinux that don't work in my configuration. All I get is: --8<-- ISOLINUX 1.75 2002-06-14 isolinux: loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it... isolinux: extremly broken bios detected, last ditch attempt with drive=9F isolinux: disk error 80, ax=432E, drive 9F --8<-- My configuration is: VP_IDE:

Hi, I am trying to boot a liveCD thats on my hard disc ...is there a way of doing this using lilo ? reason well rather than keep burning to CD then testing I want to be able to make changes then test by booting to liveCD.... Thanks in advance Dave T..

Hi Peter, thanks for SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX/PXELINUX! Some comments regarding ISOLINUX and the AWARD 6.00PG BIOS: If a CD drive and at least one HD drive is present in the machine, everything works fine :-) IF a CD drive is the _only_ drive of the PC isolinux (and any other program that uses no-emul-boot) will fail :-(( CD floppy-emul-boot or harddisk-emul-boot will work. IF a CD drive is the

Hi: Thank you very much for creating this very useful program. I downloaded the DOS version because there was a suggestion in th isolinux website. I was not able to detect the cd-rom on my pentium II computer with Award BIOS 4.51 v 1.10. I tried to set the IDE i/o address but I am not sure where to get the i/o address information. I used the i/o address in the Win98 device manager IDE

Hello, I don't know if it's ISOLINUX or a broken BIOS, this is the first time ever seeing this error. "Extremely broken BIOS" on a EPIA -M10 BIOS Rev 2.07 (latest ver available) EDEN VIA mini-ITX mobo. ISOLINUX on RH8 ver 1.75, RH9 ver 2.00 and Yarrow ver 2.06 all produce the same type of error. RH 7.3 and Lindows boot and build without any problem but I don't think they

I have a Lilo.conf file, which I have tried for many hours to convert to Syslinux. I looked around on the web for references on translating some of the components. I want to convert it to Syslinux/Isolinux. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. When I tried to convert it I made sure that the kernel and initrd had proper DOS names and such. -Michael =:LILO.CONF:= prompt timeout=10

Hi. I am trying to build a bootable linux CD using isolinux and a cloop image. I am a bit lost right now. What I have done is built a custom distro on a seperate partition on my hard drive. I can boot to it with Grub no problem. I've added the ioslinux directory with isolinux.bin, isolinux.cfg, a kernel (with initrd, loopback, iso support), and an initrd file. My next mission is to some

I have released SYSLINUX 2.10-pre2. I *really* would like testing reports for this one, especially ISOLINUX, since I've included Knut Petersen's fix for Award BIOSes... Changes in 2.10: * MEMDISK: Handle images compressed with zip as well as with gzip. Some Windows-based image tools apparently generate these kinds of images by default. Patch by Patrick

Folks I've just tried booting the 1st Linux CD I've made using Isolinux and it fails. At boot time I see: Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: No Emulation ISOLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin boot: Could not find kernel image: /isolinux The cdimage was made using the command: mkisofs -v -o austin.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat

When I boot from a MoviX cd, Isolinux gives an error: isolinux: Image checksum error, sorry... Boot failed, press a key to retry.... I searched the internet, but I couldn't find a solution, in the changelogs, there where no changes reported on this problem my specs are: AMD k6-2 300 Riva TNT2 M64 32MB 64 MB RAM RedHat and Knoppix work fine on this PC Somebody on the MoviX forum had the same

Hello everybody I would like to build a bootable CD from my running SuSE 7.3 Kernel 2.4.10. The goal is to have a prebuilt system on CD which would install everything from a compressed image on the same CD, some kind of an emergency or initial setup CD. So I startet with an directory called root_tree, placed the isolinux directory and the binaries there. I copied the initrd from the /boot