On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:52AM +0100, Bjoern Laessig wrote: > I used google a while. Maybe it is interesting for you: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00165.html
> | | >El Torito BIOSes are absolute crap. There is no question about it. | >Unfortunately there is right now *NO* configuration which works on all | >machines. If you want a configuration that works on all machines, | >you're talking boot floppies. It really is that bad. | | Hello to all you folks who are pushing for us to have all new machines. | I think that going with no-emulation mode is a worst case scenario. | | Go over to Mandrake please and hang with those folks for a while. | Then come back to a sane world populated with debian-heads. | The choice is clear: we will lose a lot of folks with old machines | who will not be able to use Debian any more. Old hands will be upset. | The CD will not boot; they will not know to try the rest of the set; | they will only have the first CD; the CD will be given away; | the old machines will be tossed. We will lose the third world. | We will lose the old office networks of ready-for-linux machines. | They will use windows 95. | | | yes BIOS makers do not follow the standards. | | They do follow the floppy booting standard disk type 00. | A floppy will boot the bad BIOS. | Therefore floppy emulation works on most machines. | | if you want to exclude most machines, simply switch to | no emulation mode. | XP does it. It must be a bad thing. | It does push the sales of new machines. | 'no emulation' mode demands a new machine. | | if you want to boot on most CD booting machines | just like RedHat 7.3 | then use floppy emulation. | | I vote for floppy emulation to boot from CD. | | Cheers, Bill Bennet > http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2002-December/001324.html To follow-up http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2002-December/001325.html says: | On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:47:18 +0000, Roberto De Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | | >My main question is the following: a few (windows) users burned an isolinux | >image I prepared with isolinux and could not boot the CD, so they tried | >to make it bootable with Nero choosing the floppy image as "Nero boot image" | >and it worked! How can it be possible that the CD produced with isolinux | >does not boot and the one made with Nero/syslinux does with the very same | >BIOS? | | If you use isolinux you are booting with El Torito in "no emulation" mode, | while if you use a floppy boot image you're likely booting in "floppy | emulation mode". Maybe that bios is ok with emulation mode and not the other | way. | | The advantage of isolinux is that you can ignore the limits of floppy images | (large initrd's) and/or choose at boot which floppy image to boot. | | However, if all you need is the equivalent of a floppy image on CD, you can | produce the image with mkisofs and a floppy image (maybe with syslinux) | without using isolinux. This would be more similar to what those windows | users did. | | -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To me it looks like that bugreport 220139 is a support request for a range hardware that boots from CD-ROM on special way. Not having the same hardware makes it hard to fix such problems. > > Bj�rn L�ssig > Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
