Re: El Torito booting on older machine

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

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