[syslinux] Booting another isolinux.bin with isolinux

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Apr 27 09:42:32 PDT 2005


Christian Schneider wrote:

> 
> But I am able to boot a "no emulation" boot image (extracted e.g. from a 
> Windows CD/Bart's Windows PE) with isolinux. Where is the difference 
> between this image and the first 2048 bytes of isolinux?
> 
> (When I use mkisofs to create a boot CD with isolinux or to create a 
> BartPE CD (without isolinux; using the Windows boot image) the only 
> difference is the "-boot-info-table" option in case of the isolinux CD. 
> That is why in example I thought that adding this table to the second 
> isolinux after creating the iso image could work.)
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 

If the boot info table is correct *for the final ISO* for each of the 
isolinux.bin files, then you're right, it should work.  This would 
require some mkisofs hacking.

	-hpa




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