Re: [Etherboot-developers] What abouat an "eb-xxx.iso" image type?

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

Markus Gutschke wrote:
> Paolo Salvan wrote:
> 
>> Mmmm.... or, really better, using a .zlilo etheboot image + isolinux 
>> +mkisofs?
> 
> 
> Yes, you have to do something like that. The current floppy boot code
> plays tricks with trying to determine the floppy geometry, which doesn't
> really work with anything other than "real" floppies. But using a boot
> loader such as Lilo of Syslinux works fine.
> 

If it does that it won't work on USB or IDE floppies, either.  This was 
the reason the old boot sector code was removed from Linux; it did the 
same thing.

	-hpa