[syslinux] Re: grub compatible

[H. Peter Anvin]

Bruce M Beach wrote:
> 
>   I know that the bios gives some recognition to the scsi's because
>   during boot you can see it scanning the scsi bus for drives and
>   I have booted of a scsi to see if I can do it, but even if it
>   were straigthforward to do I still have to config the bios to boot
>   that drive. It seems that booting off the floppy is best for me
>   since I can tell it the kernel that I working with and give a drive.
>   The only problems with floppies is that they are somewhat slow
>   and also for 6 months now I have been getting
> 
>      warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
> 
>   which is not quite true but one day will be true. I can fix that
>   by running more modules but that introduces more complexity. Its
>   unfortunate that syslinux cannot read a e2fs because I find it is
>   by far and away the best way to boot.
> 

It might if enough people ask for it.  I've been considering doing an
"extlinux" for quite a while now, and have quite a bit of the
prerequisite work done.

	-hpa