[syslinux] Booting a no-emulation image

[G. Murali Krishnan]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> G. Murali Krishnan wrote:
> > Is it possible to boot a no-emulation boot image from ISOLinux?
> >
> > I am particularly interested in having the WinXP Install CD,
> > as one of the boot images in ISOLinux.
> >
>
> Yes.  You need to have the El Torito bootstrap in a file named
> <something>.bin.  I gather the WinXP images are all 2K, but that's not a
> requirement for ISOLINUX.

So, I just grab the boot sector of WinXP (2K) and save it
as isolinux/winxp.bin and add the lines

label winxp
    kernel winxp.bin

to isolinux.cfg?

Ofcourse, I need to ensure that the CD contains ntldr, bootfix.bin
and whatever files needed for winxp.bin to work, which is ensured
if I copy the entire windows install CD over.

- Murali

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