I think I've found the source of the problem, or at least the key 
difference.  The bootdisk.ima on the iso image was generated using 
syslinux 3.20.  If I take the bootdisk.ima file, and syslinux it using 
this machine, it creates a working boot CD.  I'm using syslinux v 2.11, 
as provided in Debian Sarge.  I'm not sure what the problem is beyond 
that, but hopefully this lead to the solution.

...Izzy


Izzy Blacklock wrote:

>I ran into problems getting the iso images to boot.  I tried the latest 
>from the following link, and an older release (v3.0-beta3) that I'd 
>downloaded earlier. 
>
>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/leaf/Bering-uClibc_3.0.1_iso_bering-uclibc-iso.bin?download
>
>Both gave me a boot failure at the initial bios screen.  Doesn't look 
>like it even managed to load syslinux.  I was able to create my own 
>bootable cd using the instructions from here:
>
>http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/buci-ide.html#id2650223
>
>This CD booted fine. 
>
>As it turns out, the iso image from the site above works just fine on 
>another, much newer machine.  The one I'm having issues with is an old 
>AMD 233mhz system - not even sure what model CPU it has.  I suspect 
>there must be differences in how the iso images are being created.  What 
>mkisofs command is being used to generate the release iso images?  From 
>the instructions above, I used:
>
>mkisofs -v -b bootdisk.ima -c boot.catalog -r -J -f -o Bering-uClibc-CD.iso
>
>...Izzy
>
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