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

[Nazo]

On 12/11/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> Not with recent syslinux versions.  Either syslinux or extlinux should
> do the job.
>
>         -hpa
>
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Though they've already told you that it definitely should work, I just
thought I'd let you know that I'm using Syslinux as my primary boot
manager.  I never loved lilo or grub that much, and syslinux has just
met my needs the best of them all, so I use it even though I have to
manually do everything since I've yet to see a linux distro who's
installer actually could do syslinux.  It's installed on my old 130GiB
harddrive, with a linux partition at the end (eg WAY past 8GiB) and so
far the only problem I've ever had was with certain versions not
getting along with my bios (bios problem, not syslinux really, but,
fixed now anyway.)