[syslinux] SYSLinux/ISOLinux question

[H. Peter Anvin]

G. Murali Krishnan wrote:
> 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).
> 

That should work just peachy.  The "linux" and "rootfsgz.img" files
should live in the isolinux directory unless you specify an explicit
path to them.

	-hpa