Re: ISO Won't Boot

John Lowell writes:

> Interesting comment about your being aware of the reverse of my problem on
> some machines. It would seem that in moving to 3.4 from 3.3, KNOPPIX was
> motivated at least in part by reports of problems of my variety. And, truth
> be know, I have no conception of what Peter Arvin has to say about this
> matter.
> 
> So by your comments I'm to assume that isolinux is the at-the-moment choice
> of LNX-BBC? I reasoning deductively, of course. My problem with the livecd
> is explained if this assumption is verified. I can try the livecd on one of
> my workstations, I suppose, just to look but I'd very much prefer to see it
> where it was slated for use, the PII webserver in question.
> 
> I'll look for your reply.

LNX-BBC now uses SYSLINUX, not ISOLINUX.  I remember personally
finding a machine which would boot a SYSLINUX CD and not an ISOLINUX
CD.  It probably wouldn't be hard to make a tree that generates images
for both, but perhaps Peter Anvin would be interested to fix the bug
that affects your system.

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