Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After testing isolinux in a small number of machines I have came across
> several cases of falure, I have already reported falures on Fujitsu Pentium
> machines, now this one is relating scsi cards.
>
> After seing all this it makes me think if by using isolinux we are going for
> better or for worst, I mean, we used to have a cd that was able to boot on
> almost all kind of machines, now we have one that boots on most of the ide
> based machines and on some of the scsi ones, otherwise you have to try
> cds from 2 to 5 to see if any works for you. Is it just me or does anybody
> else think we are going for worst? What about eltorito multiboot? it didn't
> work as multiboot on all machines, but at least it booted.
>
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.
> Anyway, let's go for the Debug dump of isolinux that I got on this machine,
> the scsi card is a symbios 53c875J based Diamond, and this is the dump:
Where is the SCSI BIOS for this card?
> BTW: On both this machines (the Fujitsu and this scsi machine) eltorito
> multiboot worked ok, either by booting the default image or by showing the
> menu.
With "El Torito Multiboot" I presume you are talking about floppy
emulation mode (all of this is El Torito.)
-hpa
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