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Re: El Torito booting on older machine
From: |
Yoshinori K. Okuji |
Subject: |
Re: El Torito booting on older machine |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:28:52 +0200 |
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On Saturday 24 April 2004 04:56, Christian Jones wrote:
> grub> root
> (hd31): Filesystem type unknown, using whole disk
>
> grub> root (cd)
> Error 23: Error while parsing number
This looks like you use an older version. Are you sure that you use the
latest?
> As I said, I'd be willing to just strike this up to "This BIOS is
> broken and has no El Torito support"---except that it *does* boot
> CDs. I was unable to get it to work with floppy emulation (not
> surprising), but it works with Slackware, which used:
> mkisofs -R -J -V ... -hide-rr-moved -v -d -N -no-emul-boot \
> -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -sort isolinux/iso.sort \
> -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/isolinux.boot -p ... -P ... -A
> ... (I purposely left out the ...s).
Umm, which version of syslinux do you use for this isolinux?
Thanks,
Okuji