[syslinux] Using syslinux to boot from .... hard disk?

Shachar Shemesh syslinux at shemesh.biz
Sun Dec 11 08:26:06 PST 2005


Frederic Pasteleurs wrote:

>Shachar Shemesh wrote:
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>>Sorry if this question seems odd. Is it possible to use syslinux to boot
>>from a regular hard disk? I know that's exactly what grub, lilo etc. are
>>doing, but I would really like to utilize the comboot option of
>>syslinux. Are there LBA limitations to such a setup?
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>I am using syslinux on a compactflash card hooked to the IDE bus, so it
>behaves like a hard disk.
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>Works like a charm. :-)
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Even when the partition is further than 8GB into the disk?


          Shachar


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