[syslinux] making a menu option for localboot

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Aug 16 07:35:12 PDT 2004


Erwan Velu wrote:
> Le jeu 12/08/2004 à 22:42, ganapathy murali krishnan a écrit :
> 
>>Ensure that chain.c32 is there on your CD, add a new menu option where 
>>the kernel to boot is
>>"chain.c32 hd0 0" (boot the first hard disk). See the documentation with 
>>chain.c32 for all the
>>different arguments you can give it.
> 
> In my case, it works fine using hard drives but not using a cdrom using
> syslinux. Any plan to chainload a cdrom ?

It is not possible to chainload a CD-ROM, due to the way the BIOS works.

	-hpa




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