[syslinux] how does memdisk boot an iso image

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Well, to me it's just another type of medium to emulate for booting, but 
that's probably because I'm ignorant ;)

Doesn't it share more with memdisk than it differs ?

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