[syslinux] COMBOOT examples?

[Aaron McSorley]

I would love to see more comboot examples, some sort of menu system 
woule be especially helpful. Where is the code that you mention below. 

-Aaron


On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, ganapathy murali krishnan wrote:

> I wrote (what I think is) a useful piece of comboot code, to autoboot 
> into various images. Here is a small explanation of what it does
> 
> -------------- INTRO TO AUTOBOOTING -----------
> 
> The comboot code, reads a "stack" of labels pops one off the "stack", 
> and uses the comboot API to boot into the specified label. In case the 
> "stack" is empty or the stack has not been setup, it boots into the 
> label specified by its command line argument.
> 
> Another utility, creates such a "stack" by writing the "stack" to an 
> unused portion of the hard disk.
> 
> A typical use is as follows
> 
> ---- contents of file "bootorder" -----
> # Comment line
> # First install windows
> winstall
> # Windows needs a few reboots off the local hard disk to
> # finish the installation.
> local
> local
> local
> local
> # Now we can start with the debian installation
> linstall firewall=yes image=debian
> local
> ----- end of file "bootorder" -----
> 
> $ writeker /dev/hda < bootorder
> 
> after writeker has been called, every succesive boot using the comboot 
> code will result in the execution of the images in the specified order.
> 
> The writeker utility is a binary which executes under linux, the 
> corresponding readker.c32 is the comboot code.
> 
> ----------------------- END OF INTRODUCTION -----------------
> 
> Would people like to see code like this packaged with syslinux? 
> Hopefully more people will start to use COMBOOT to do some non-trivial 
> things.
> 
> - Murali
> 
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