[syslinux] syslinux on Windows to USB compactflash disk

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alex Pavloff wrote:
> 
> I'm going to have to do this eventually.  Right now I've got FreeDOS on the
> compactflash (which was made bootable by plugging the flash into an
> IDE->CompactFlash and booting to a freedos bootdisk and then running sys
> c:).  The reason I'm currently using FreeDOS is that I've got to query a bit
> of hardware inside my machine to find the desired framebuffer video mode to
> pass to the kernel with vga=.  The query runs as a COM program (that I have
> written), returns a value, and then I can play DOS batch file games to call
> loadlin with the correct options.
> 
> Now, if I can put the hardware query and kernel param set into SYSLINUX
> somewhere, I'd rather use it (becuase I don't need all of freedos, I just
> need a simple bootloader).  Can I pull this off with a minimum of fuss?  If
> the answer is yes, then in a month or so (depending on my schedules) I would
> be willing to do the win32 installer.
> 

You should be able to run your query program as a COMBOOT (16-bit) or
COM32 (32-bit) program from SYSLINUX.

	-hpa