Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Boot problem.

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

RTFM ;-)

http://www.devil-linux.org/newdoc/ch01s07.html#d0e864

cya
  Heiko

On 10/14/2003 03:30:03 PM Bruce Smith wrote:
>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 th=
e
>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 m=
ay
>work with "memdisk" instead of isolinux, but that requires a floppy
>image, which we don't produce and a standard size floppy image would b=
e
>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 SCS=
I
>modules), and try and make it boot with memdisk, or standard mkisofs a=
nd
>a eltorito boot image ???
>
>P.S.  This is bad if DL won't boot on older PC's ...

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