Subject: Re: Netvista does not boot on ISO image.
To: Claus Andersen <clan@wheel.dk>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/21/2001 13:34:33
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Claus Andersen wrote:

: on a IBM Netvista S40 (Legacy free w/o floppy) it just hangs. The CD is
: spun up, something is read from the disk, the cursor jumps one line
: down (CR/LF) and the machine is in a state of coma. It doesn't revert back
: to HD boot as it would with a non-bootable CD.

: The Netvista is booting other CDs like W2K just fine. Is this issue worth
: investigating further in this world of nearly compatible PeeCees?

I have a feeling that your laptop only understands 1.44MB El Torito boot
images on the CD's.  I'm working to implement a better boot method that uses
only a 1.44MB image file to work around all the broken BIOS's.

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