[syslinux] chainload cdrom

Aaron McSorley aaron.mcsorley at amd.com
Fri Jun 4 11:52:02 PDT 2004


Would it be possible to write a comboot file that would activate the
El Torito part of the bios.

Thanks
 -Aaron

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Aaron McSorley wrote:
> > Is there a way to chain load boot a cdrom from pxelinux
> > 
> 
> No, since booting from CD-ROM requires that the El Torito part of the 
> BIOS is activated, which it won't be if it didn't boot from CD-ROM in 
> the first place.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 





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