[syslinux] SYSLinux/ISOLinux question

[G. Murali Krishnan]

I am now trying to create a ISOLinux CD where
one of the images is going to be linux. I already
have a SYSLinux floppy, which boots into linux and
mounts the CD correctly. If I include this image in
the ISOLinux CD as one of the images, it works
perfectly without any problems.

The syslinux/syslinux.cfg in the floppy image, basically runs
a default kernel (linux), with a root file system
stored in syslinux/rootfsgz.img.

If I just copy the kernel and rootfsgz.img to the isolinux
directory of my CD, and copy the appropriate line from
syslinux.cfg to isolinux.cfg, i.e. something like

label linux
   kernel linux
   append initrd=rootfsgz.img

then I will be able to avoid syslinux? Or is syslinux
needed for this to work (may be ldlinux.sys is uncompressing
the rootfsgz.img).

- Murali

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