[syslinux] Bootable CD Images

[Josef Siemes]

Hi,

> I have a bootable CDRom and it comes up with an isolinux menu that lets me 
> pick from several different floppy images to boot Dos and several different 
> Linux Rescue Disks using memdisk. So far so good.
> 
> What I would like to be able to do is boot a bootable image that is not a 
> floppy image.
> 
> For example, DemoLinux is a 650MB iso file and when burned to a cd it 
> boots. What I would like to do is be able to boot the iso image after 
> picking it from a menu.

> If you can already do this then I'll be damned if I know how and I 
> apologize for asking you a tech support question, but if you can't do it 
> then I think it would be super great if you could.

I think this should be handled by an initrd, so you have the kernel, initrd 
and .iso-images of the distribution on the CD, and then the initrd mounts
the preferred iso-image as a loopback file for the root filesystem.

Regards,

Josef


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