[Is] this possibly an ISOLINUX bug which might be fixed by now?
It is actually a memdisk issue, and it persists even in the latest prerelease (2.05-pre2); I checked.
memdisk is a tool that loads images into memory and emulates them as volumes, I presume?
If not, I can only get around it by booting off the network, right? :-/
Unfortunately, the network boots also use memdisk :-(. I got around this by removing the DVD-ROM from the laptop's bay and putting in a floppy drive instead. Then I was able to boot from the network just fine.
Well, these models don't have a bay - the optical drive is fixed.
If not, do you have a USB floppy drive which you can connect?
We have one of those "SuperDisk" USB drives which also mount floppies (I never worked with them though). Whether the BIOS accepts those as floppy, though, is another question.
Solving this long-term may require more drastic measures. memdisk can emulate a hard drive instead of a floppy, and I suspect that would work here. The only problem is that it will take up a drive letter (presumably C:),
Is memdisk an open-source project, or is it an old tool from Microsoft? If the former, surely there's a way to use Y: or something instead?
Or maybe it could emulate another CD?
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