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
Püntenstrasse 39
8143 Stallikon
mailto:erich.titl@think.ch
PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16
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
Püntenstrasse 39
8143 Stallikon
mailto:erich.titl@think.ch
PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16