I recently had this brilliant idea to install Linux on a couple older
boxes. I have a P5-166 and a P5-100. Both have 80MB of memory, and a
IDE CD drive. Both PC's boot a Windows-98 CDROM fine. When I boot
either PC from the latest DL CD, it reads the CD briefly, then I get:
isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it...
isolinux: Failed to access CD-ROM device; boot failed.
The same DL CD works fine on a newer PC. I tried a new CD drive on the
P5-1xx PC's and I get the same error. I checked for a newer BIOS on
both PC's, and they are already running the latest.
A lot of google'ing leads me to believe this is a common problem with
older BIOS's. The syslinux/isolinux page implies old PC's like this may
work with "memdisk" instead of isolinux, but that requires a floppy
image, which we don't produce and a standard size floppy image would be
too large to produce with all the modules we include in the initrd.
Any suggestions before I try and produce a floppy image (minus the SCSI
modules), and try and make it boot with memdisk, or standard mkisofs and
a eltorito boot image ???
P.S. This is bad if DL won't boot on older PC's ...
- BS
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