Syslinux - Dec 2003 - ISOLINUX fails at boot on Award BIOS v6.00PG

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 use
ISOLINUX as a boot loader.

Any thoughts would be appreciated
Thanks
Doug


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Doug Shubert wrote:
> 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.
> 
Please try isolinux-debug.bin and report all messages.  It will at least 
give a clue what's going on.

Other than that you might want to report this to your mobo maker.  It's 
almost certainly a BIOS bug; we've heard a fair amount about the EPIA 
boards on this list.

	-hpa

Doug Shubert wrote:
> Hello,
> Thanks for the reply
> 
> I rebuilt the RH9 ISO with ioslinux-debug off the 2.08 distribution
> and the following messages are now displayed.
> 
> ISOLINX 2.08 2003-12-12 Copy....
> ISOLINX: Starting up, DL = 9F
> ISOLINX: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it...
> ISOLINX: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive = 9F
> ISOLINX: Loading main image from LBA=00000571
> ISOLINX: Sectors to load = 0004
> ISOLINX: Disk error 01, AX = 4271, drive 9F
> 
> One note that I will add is that the EPIA-5000 mother board does not have
> any
> floppy drive header but the BIOS does have an option to enable/disable the
> FDD.
> 
> Please let me know if this helps or need to flag the isolinux-debug for
> additional messages.
> Doug
> 
Error 01 is FUNCTION NOT SUPPORTED.  Combined with the "extremely broken 
bios..." message this means the BIOS hasn't actually enabled the CD-ROM
access functions (or done so incorrectly.)

	-hpa