Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Hello Peter & Jeremy, > > I've found an ordinary desktop PC (with Phoenix Award BIOS 6.00PG) that > won't boot off a USB stick created by livecd-tools-024 with syslinux > (tested both versions 3.75 and 3.81). > > The boot process drops to the "boot:" prompt with an error message: > > could not find kernel image: linux > > The same USB stick boots fine on any other computer I could find. > Does it seem like a syslinux bug? And if turns out to be a known BIOS > bug, is there a good workaround? > I need much more details; *all* Award BIOSes make in the past 10-12 years have version number 6.00PG. Also look for how you have configured your BIOS... some Award BIOSes have USB-ZIP, USB-HDD, USB-FDD configurations; you generally want USB-HDD. There are some BIOSes which will boot from USB *only* if it was formatted with 64 heads, 32 sectors; apparently due to some odd notion that only zipdrives would be USB. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
