[syslinux] Syslinux: Multi-Disks [feature]

[Clifford Wolf]

Hi,

I'm the maintainer ROCK Linux (www.rocklinux.org). We are using isolinux
on our Install-CDs for x86 systems.

We - as most other distributions too - are running in the problem that
even minimalistc kernels are slowly growing and sometimes don't fit on
1.44 MB floppies anymore.

2.5.x kernels with initramfs are even bigger than 2.88 MB in some cases...

Until now it always has been possible to shrik a kernel down to 1.44 MB
and also shrink the initrd image do a size which fits on one single disk.
But I'm afraid that will not be possible anymore with linux 2.6.

A possible solution would be to teach the boot loader how to load a kernel
image which is splitted over multiple disks. Something like:

	Loading vmlinuz ............................................
	* Please insert next disk *
	Loading vmlinuz ............................................
	* Please insert next disk *
	Loading vmlinuz ............................  Ready.
	Loading initrd.img .....
	* Please insert next disk *
	Loading initrd.img ............... Ready.

That would be a _really_ cool syslinux feature. But please don't ask me to
send you a patch - I've not been writing real-mode assembler for over ten
years now ....

yours,
 - clifford

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