Re: Problems with edd

[Keith Roberts <keith@karsites.net>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> To: Keith Roberts <keith@karsites.net>
> From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Subject: Re: Problems with edd
> 
> Keith Roberts wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have put in syslinux 3.70-pre16 code to print the source of this 
>>> message.  You may want to try to grab isolinux from this release and 
>>> update your CD image to get some useful debugging info out of this.
>>>
>>>     -hpa
>> 
>> Not being a kernel guru, I'm not sure how to do that hpa?
>> 
>> Where do I get isolinux from please?
>> 
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/syslinux-3.70-pre16.tar.bz2
>
>> how do I update my CD image?
>
> You will need to run mkisofs with the same options used to generate the 
> image.

OK - thankyou for that, hpa

> In a pinch, if you can point me to the original ISO I could try to doctor 
> it.

I originally got mine from:

http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso

The sha1sum is:

3b1df20ece05d64c34dd9c64400975b74eded0f2  Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso

I have also put it on my website, just in case it gets 
updated on the mirrors:

http://www.karsites.net/fedora/9/Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso

obviously same sha1sum ;)

The Fedora guys are following this thread now. I have put 
the link to your patch on my Fedora bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450678

I have never built an iso file before, but I'll read up on 
it. My plan was to copy the files from the F9 net-installer 
CD to my hard drive, update them with your patch, and then 
re-make the iso file and burn that back to CD-R. Would that 
work?

>> I'm willing to give this a try if it will sort out the problem.
>
> That would be useful.  This is potentially a previously unreported BIOS 
> issue which might have a straightforward workaround, so I'm eager to get 
> the data.
>
> 	-hpa

Regards

Keith