[syslinux] isolinux from floppy

[H. Peter Anvin]

Koblinger Egmont wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to somehow mix syslinux and isolinux so that I boot from a
> floppy disk and then load the kernel+initrd from a CD?
> 
> Reading the docs it seems to me that syslinux and isolinux are quite
> independent tools, they work differently, the installation method is
> different etc... so I'm afraid I'll get a negative answer... but I hope I
> won't :-)
> 

Nope, you can't, because the PC BIOS is braindead and won't give you
access to devices you didn't boot from, except for disks.

So even though your BIOS might know how to talk to the CD-ROM, it won't
enable the CD-ROM API unless you booted from it.

Unless someone writes an El Torito stack that you can put on the floppy,
this is a no-go.

	-hpa