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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Dec 11 23:12:54 PST 2005


Nazo wrote:
> 
> 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.)

Someone told me the other day that either Gentoo or Ubuntu had switched 
to extlinux as primary boot loader.  I can't confirm either :-/

	-hpa




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