[syslinux] Syslinux: Multi-Disks [feature]

[Clifford Wolf]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Christian Marg wrote:

> Build ramdisk big enough for the whole kernel file
> Load first chunk of Kernelfile to ramdisk
> Ask for second disk
> Second Bootdisk:
> Load second chunk of kernel to ramdisk and concatenate both chunks
> and so on and so forth until the whole Kernel file is on the ramdisk.
> Use Loadlin (boot a Kernel from DOS) and Boot the kernel from the Ramdisk.

Hmmm, so the ramdisk must be in high memory (>1 MB) to be able to hold the
kernel image. Can loadlin handle that? (so it doesn't overwrite the
ramdisk when extracting the kernel image and so screwing up the data).

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