[syslinux] how does memdisk boot an iso image

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thomas Baumann wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I sucessfully booted some floppy-images within memdisk-2.0.4, but how
>>>can I boot a cd-iso-image (for example a bootable eltorito cd).
>>
>>You can't, sorry.
> 
> Is it technically impossible, is it beyond the goal of the project or 
> would such a patch be included if someone would write it ?
> 
> I would for one love such an addition ;) Too much hassle to manually 
> change rescue CD images.
> 

I guess it's beyond the scope of the project.  The BIOS interface to a 
CD-ROM is very different than the BIOS interface to a floppy or hard 
disk.  It pretty much would mean writing a different piece of code to 
emulate a CD-ROM as opposed to emulate a disk.

	-hpa