[syslinux] Isolinux on hard disk?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Piotr G?udkowski wrote:
> I'm succesfully using isolinux for bootable cd creating, but I want to 
> emulate work with cdrom using hard disk (I have not cd writer at home). Is 
> it possible to use small hard disk as cdrom equivalent? How to do it?
> I tried using the /dev/hdc1 as output file of isolinux, and after moving 
> disk as primary master and rebooting, bios says that bootrecord is found 
> on IDE-0 and... nothing. It doesn't work :-(
> 

No, you cannot.  The BIOS interface for hard disks and CD-ROMs are very 
different.

The closest you can get is to use a FAT filesystem on your hard disk and 
use SYSLINUX.

	-hpa