[syslinux] ISOLINUX: COMBOOT INT22 Additions?
G. Murali Krishnan
gmkrishn at cs.uchicago.edu
Thu Dec 19 11:54:50 PST 2002
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> G. Murali Krishnan wrote:
> > Additional functions which could be added to those
> > already supported by INT22 under ISOLINUX.
> >
> > Check if partition is bootable
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Boot into Partition
> > -------------------
> You can read the disk directly with INT 13h and look at the return data
> yourself. I only want to add INT 22h functions for things that cannot
> be easily replicated in the client, or would make the client
> medium-dependent when it shouldn't be. However, in this case the
> operation is inherently medium-dependent, so it doesn't add value.
Then, may be we can have a com32/include/isolinux.h (or syslinux.h),
which has these and other useful functions defined.
BTW, Is the latest syslinux still 2.01-pre3?
- Murali
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