Erich Titl wrote:> >> .... >> Most BIOSes are highly cantankerous booting off extended-format >> floppies. They may not be able to read more than a single sector at a >> time, and then have to wait for the floppy to rotate a full turn to >> read the next sector. SYSLINUX will fall back on this mode of >> operation if it has to. Note that *many* BIOSes can't boot >> extended-format floppies at all. > > Maybe I am misguided here but why not just use isolinux in this case. It > should not suffer from the same limitations. >Because we're talking about booting from physical floppy media? ISOLINUX boots from a CD-ROM. -hpa
Hi H. Peter Anvin wrote the following at 20:55 26.05.2002:>.... >Most BIOSes are highly cantankerous booting off extended-format >floppies. They may not be able to read more than a single sector at a >time, and then have to wait for the floppy to rotate a full turn to read >the next sector. SYSLINUX will fall back on this mode of operation if it >has to. Note that *many* BIOSes can't boot extended-format floppies at all.Maybe I am misguided here but why not just use isolinux in this case. It should not suffer from the same limitations. Erich THINK P?ntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:erich.titl at think.ch PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16