[syslinux] Booting a no-emulation image

[G. Murali Krishnan]

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

> G. Murali Krishnan wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> More or less.  Note that you need to find the boot sector (which is
> probaby a .bin file already -- it might very well be the bootfix.bin
> file you just mentioned) -- on a CD-ROM the boot sector is *not* the
> first sector on the device.
>

Yeah. I got the boot sector of windows XP extracted. It is also
available for download in Bart's Boot CD webpage. The bootfix.bin
is additional code which is executed by the bootsector. It is
basically responsible for giving the "Press any key to boot..." and
if no key is pressed, boots from the hard disk. The same effect
is achieved on recent MS-DOSes by including the file JO.SYS.

- Murali

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