F8 DOS system call ??

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Nov 29 15:57:31 UTC 2007


On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:32:55PM +0000, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> I'm just trying to install F8 on one of my smaller machines to use as a
> test environment, and it seems to have a problem:
> 
>   Searching for Book Record from CDROM..OK
> 
>   ISOLINUX 3.36 2007-02-10  Copyright (C) 1994-2007 H. Peter Anvin
>   vesamenu.c32: attempted DOS system call
>   boot:
>   vesamenu.c32: attempted DOS system call
>   boot:
>   ... etc - loops on these last two lines
> Any idea what that means ?


A quick web search indicates that a workaround may be to just type "linux"
at that prompt and hit enter.


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