[syslinux] Booting disk images with syslinux?

robotti at godmail.com robotti at godmail.com
Thu Aug 11 15:04:00 PDT 2005


>Is it possable to boot a diskimage with syslinux?
>
>So often I run into bios upgrade disks images or can
>easily create a disk image and would like an easy way
>to just boot these images.
>
>I know isolinux does this and I vagely remember using
>it to make a bootable windows 95 cd back in the day.
>It worked to.
>
>It would be nice if I could just copy the disk image
>to a usbstick and use syslinux to boot these images.
>Is it possable?
>And if so how do I add these to the config file
>
>I tried
>
>label dosdisk
>kernel floppy.img

Use memdisk from syslinux.

label dosdisk
kernel memdisk
append initrd=floppy.img




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