Re: ISO Won't Boot

John Lowell writes:

> I can't get your livecd to boot on a PII box I have here which uses a 
> Promise Ultra 100 TX-2 Controller. I'm going to bet that the cd employs 
> syslinux, not isolinux, am I right about that? I had a similar problem 
> with recent versions of DamnSmallLinux which is based on KNOPPIX 3.3. At 
> least in part owing to trouble with syslinux, KNOPPIX went with isolinux 
> with 3.4. Feather uses 3.4 and I can boot with it. So, after that long 
> introduction, does the LNX-BBC livecd use syslinux? If so, any 
> possibility of a future move to isolinux?

What does Peter Anvin have to say about this?  In the past it appeared
that there were machines on which SYSLINUX would work where ISOLINUX
would not.  I had never heard of machines on which the reverse was
true.

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