[syslinux] Booting windows NTFS volumes

[H. Peter Anvin]

Tobias Svensson wrote:
> I just wanted to ask you a question..
> 
> scince you are the creator of syslinux.. Do you think it is possible to 
> boot up a loopmounted linuxdistro on a NTFS volume with loadlin or 
> syslinux or something ?
> 
> Like I have a distro (topologilinux) but currently I need a cd to boot 
> it up.. do you think it is possible to use windows own bootmanager and 
> start something that loopmount the file and start the system up ?
> 

You would need to load the kernel and the initrd from another device, 
then set up the loopback mount from the initrd and pivot_root.

	-hpa