[NCLUG] Re: Mandrake firewall (M Butcher)

[mbutcher]

Hmmm... sounds like Syslinux failed. It's been a while since I've been on the 
Syslinux mailing list, but back in the day, there were some problems with 
booting from certain CD ROMs. You might want to hunt around through their 
newsgroup postings and see if you can find anything helpful.

http://syslinux.hackerdojo.com 

On Monday 24 June 2002 09:08 am, William Dan Terry wrote:
> > Message: 3
> > Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Mandrake firewall
> > From: M Butcher <mbutcher at aleph-null.tv>
> > To: nclug at nclug.org
> > Date: 21 Jun 2002 10:55:43 -0600
> > Reply-To: nclug at nclug.org
> >
> > How far do you get in the booting process? Do you get past the
> > bootloader?
>
> On the floppy boot attempt a clear screen appears and then the words
> like "SYSLINUX 1.48 Linux-Mandrake". Then a little hesitation and "Boot
> failed" on the same line. That's it. Very clean fail, so it's got to be
> something pretty fundamental.
>
> Peace, William
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