[syslinux] SYSLinux/ISOLinux question

[G. Murali Krishnan]

Thanks a lot. Worked like a charm.

The windows related stuff (see booting no-emulation image)
did not work. Complained about NTLDR not found. But I
guess it is not related to ISOlinux, because the fact that
I got this error message means that the XP Boot loader
was executed. May be XP Boot loader has some weird assumptions,
I will check into that though.

Thanks again for all the help.

- Murali

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

> 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
>
>


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