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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 11:33:16 +0100
From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
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Subject: Re: Unable to boot a raw kernel image :??
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    Hi Denis :)

> >     After that, mkisofsing, toasting and booting. But now, depending
> > on the machine,                                            ^^^^^^^^^
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Boot CD support is BIOS-dependent AFAIK. Maybe on those machines BIOS
> floppy emulation from CD is broken?

    Not at all. I can boot using isolinux (or syslinux), for example.
The failure happens in all machines I've tested, but depending on the
machine, the particular fail is one or another: some of them
generate 'invalid compressed format', others just hang, etc...

    But booting the same kernel using isolinux works :( That is, it
is not a mkisofs issue, nor a cdrecord issue, etc...

    Thanks for your answer, Denis :)
    Raśl