[syslinux] El Torito/ISOLinux questions

[Alexander Sack]

Hi folks,

I'm new to the list so forgive me if this topic has already been
explained in great detail.

I'm trying to understand how an image gets booted from an EL-TORITO
compabatible CD-ROM, so I have some general questions:

1)  Is there a limit of how big the boot image can be?  In the
Initial/Default entry I see a "Sector Count" which is only a word long
in length.  Does that mean I can only load boot binary (isolinux.bin) 
that is FFFF many sectors (about 32MB)?

2)  I see you can use MEMDISK with ISOLINUX.   Does that work by
allowing ISOLINUX to load a big hard disk image off the CD-ROM and then
boot from that?  Is that how an Linux install works?

Thanks!

-aps

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